We have 30,000 contractors labeling data around the world. Self-driving cars, chatbots, satellite imagery — every AI model needs labeled data and most of them come to us. It's not sexy work. It's essential work.
I dropped out of MIT at 19 to start Scale AI. My parents are both physicists. They understood probability well enough to know this was a bad bet. But they let me do it.
AI is only as good as its training data. Everyone obsesses over the model. We obsess over the data that feeds it. Scale provides the labeled data for OpenAI, Meta, the US military — all of them.
I became the youngest self-made billionaire in America at 25. That sounds impressive. What actually happened is I built a data labeling company during the biggest AI boom in history. The timing was the hard part. The labeling was the easy part.
The Pentagon is our customer. The US Army, Air Force, and intelligence community all use Scale to process data. National security runs on good data. We provide it.
My parents immigrated from China to work at Los Alamos National Lab. Nuclear physicists. I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico — population 12,000. Not exactly the startup ecosystem. But the work ethic was world-class.