Meta is reportedly in discussions to invest billions of dollars into Scale AI, marking what may be the company’s largest external artificial intelligence investment to date. According to current reports, the potential deal surpasses $10 billion, which would also position it among the largest private-company funding rounds on record.
Scale AI, helmed by CEO Alexandr Wang, specializes in providing data labeling services critical for training machine learning models. Its clientele includes major industry figures like Microsoft and OpenAI. The company’s workforce is largely composed of contractors handling these labeling tasks—a business practice recently scrutinized by the U.S. Department of Labor, which ultimately ended its investigation into employee classification issues without proceeding further.
Financially, Scale AI continues to showcase notable growth. The company generated approximately $870 million in revenue last year, and projections indicate that this year’s revenue may exceed $2 billion. Meta previously participated in Scale AI’s Series F funding, a $1 billion financing event that valued the company at approximately $13.8 billion.
In collaboration with Meta, Scale AI has also developed Defense Llama—a specialized large language model based on Meta’s Llama 3 framework and designed specifically for military applications.
