Scale AI is suing the US DoD; Scale AI has several contracts with the department, and a spokesperson says the lawsuit “relates to a recent procurement decision”
- Scale AI is suing the Department of Defense, filing its complaint on January 30.
Nvidia agrees to a licensing deal with Groq; CEO Jonathan Ross and other top executives will join Nvidia; Groq says it will continue operating independently
anybody who knows anything about AI chips knows groq's first gen chips aren't competitive but maybe their upcoming chips might have been able to threaten nvidia? @josephjacks_ : Overly simplistic take...
Scale AI and CAIS' Remote Labor Index benchmark, which tests AI agents on freelance tasks, finds the best AI could perform just <3% of the work, earning $1,810
A new benchmark measures how well AI agents can automate economically valuable chores. Human-level AI is still some ways off. Bluesky: @carlzimmer.com . Forums: r/artificial and r/technews Bluesky: C...
Scale AI launches SEAL Showdown, a public AI benchmarking system that relies on votes from contributors in 100+ countries to gauge everyday usability of models
Data-labeling startup Scale AI is launching a new public benchmarking system to rank the best-performing artificial intelligence models …
A profile of Edwin Chen, the CEO of Surge AI, a Scale AI rival that had $1.2B revenue in 2024, is profitable, and is reportedly raising $1B at a $30B valuation
This story appears in the October/November 2025 issue of Forbes Magazine. Subscribe — An alum of Google, Facebook and Twitter … X: @_iainmartin , @_pheebini , @richa_lq , @hellosurgeai , @forbes , ...
Scale AI signed a $100M ceiling contract with the DOD to provide end-to-end services, including its data engine for data preparation and AI model testing
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Invisible Technologies, a Scale AI rival that helped train ChatGPT, raised $100M, sources say at a $2B+ valuation, and says that sales doubled to $134M in 2024
Vanara, a spinoff of TPG, led the latest funding round. — Add us on Google — Artificial intelligence startup Invisible Technologies …
A profile of Mercor, a Scale AI rival valued at $2B in February, which hires domain experts to train models; it had a $100M run rate in March and $6M H1 profit
Mercor, debuting on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, built an AI recruiter to interview job candidates. X: @richardjnieva . LinkedIn: Sundeep Peechu and Peter Fenton . Bluesky: @dannygroner X: Richard Nieva...
Scale AI sues former employee Eugene Ling and his current employer, Mercor, one of Scale's key competitors, for allegedly stealing 100+ confidential documents
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NYC-based Protege, which prepares and sells real-world datasets like lab results and sports footage for AI training, raised a $25M Series A led by Footwork
Companies like Scale AI and Surge have proven there's a market for human-labeled data, like professionals' answers to complex math or law questions …