The original insight behind founding Scale AI was the belief that as AI grows, the demand for data will increase exponentially, necessitating infrastructure to support that growth.

The story of Scale AI exemplifies a classic startup journey, where founders pivoted from an unrelated idea to successfully address the demand for data labeling in AI, particularly for self-driving cars.

The initial business of Scale AI focused on generating data for self-driving car companies, which required us to stay ahead of AI trends.

Since starting Scale, we've been at the forefront of every major development in AI, working with companies like General Motors and Toyota on autonomous vehicle programs and collaborating with the US government on pioneering AI initiatives.

The success of our operational data business created the momentum to explore building applications, which was a significant evolution for Scale AI.

We realized that scaling laws in AI showed predictable improvements with increased data and compute, which encouraged us to focus on building a product for knowledge work as AI matured.

In the early days of Scale AI, the focus was on refining data for autonomous vehicles, transforming raw data into labeled, high-quality data for machine learning applications.

At Scale, we power the data infrastructure for the entire AI industry, with every major large language model built on top of our data engine, and we partner with enterprises and governments to implement this technology for their unique challenges.

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