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692 What a Scale AI Rival’s Extraordinary Success Says About the Meta Deal

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Nick Wingfield @ The Information · 06/19/2025 20:00 EDT

What a Scale AI Rival’s Extraordinary Success Says About the Meta Deal

The past week has been a steady drip, drip, drip of new details shedding light on Meta Platforms’ $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI and its hiring of the startup’s CEO, Alexandr Wang. The latest eye-opener came this morning in Stephanie and Cory’s profile of a Scale competitor, Surge AI, and its founder, Edwin Chen.In essence, they report, Surge has become the premium brand in data labeling, a business that involves recruiting experts to manually improve the quality of the responses from artificial intel

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