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Scale AI

Scale AI is the critical data foundry and evaluation infrastructure of the artificial intelligence ecosystem, powering RLHF alignment and generative data pipelines for frontier labs and defense programs.

Overview

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Scale AI is the premier data infrastructure and model evaluation company for artificial intelligence, headquartered in San Francisco, California. Established in 2016 by Chief Executive Officer Alexandr Wang, Scale AI supplies the high-quality annotated training tokens, human-in-the-loop alignment, and evaluation benchmarks utilized by OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and the U.S. Department of Defense.

Who it serves

Frontier AI research laboratories, autonomous vehicle developers, United States defense agencies, and enterprise IT leaders fine-tuning proprietary models.

What it builds

Scale Data Engine, Scale GenAI Platform, Scale Donovan (defense AI operating system), and Scale SEAL (Safety, Evaluation, and Alignment Lab).

Why It Matters

Scale AI is the critical data foundry and evaluation infrastructure of the artificial intelligence ecosystem, powering RLHF alignment and generative data pipelines for frontier labs and defense programs.

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Company

Scale AI

Capabilities

  • High-throughput multimodal data annotation and curation
  • RLHF, RLAIF, and expert human red-teaming infrastructure
  • Enterprise model evaluation and benchmark validation
  • Defense-grade situational awareness and sensor fusion algorithms

Features

  • Scale Data Engine for computer vision, LiDAR, and text
  • Scale GenAI Enterprise Platform with custom fine-tuning pipelines
  • Scale Donovan defense workspace for classified intelligence
  • SEAL (Safety, Evaluation, and Alignment Lab) public leaderboards

Country

United States

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  • 2026: Scale AI continues operating as an independent company supplying data infrastructure to AI labs and enterprises beyond Meta, per the terms of Meta's non-controlling investment. Latest
  • Company founded 2016 · founded Source
  • Leadership 2025 · leadership Source
  • Product 2026 · product Source
  • Development 2026 · development Source

Frequently Asked Questions

What does Scale AI do?

Scale AI provides the mission-critical training data curation, RLHF annotation, model evaluation, and software infrastructure required to build and deploy generative AI and autonomous systems.

Who founded Scale AI?

Scale AI was founded in 2016 by Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo in San Francisco, California.

What is Scale Donovan?

Scale Donovan is a specialized AI decision-support platform designed for defense and national security organizations to ingest, analyze, and act upon multi-source intelligence data in real time.

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