The large investment of meta in scale AI may give some of the customers of the startup.
Reuters reports that Google was planning to pay $ 200 million this year, but now has conversations with its competitors and Plan to break tires. Microsoft is said to be also looking to withdraw, and OpenAi probably made a similar decision months ago, although the CFO said that the company will continue to work with scale as one of the many suppliers.
The customers of the scale are self-driving car companies and the US government, but Reuters says that the largest customers are generative AI companies that are looking for access to employees with specialized knowledge that can annotate data to train models.
Google refused to comment on the report. A spokesperson for the scale refused to comment on the relationship between the company with Google, but he told Techcrunch that the company remains strong and that it will continue to work as an independent company that protects its customers’ data.
Previous reports suggest that Meta has invested $ 14.3 billion in scale for an interest of 49% in the company, where CEO Alexandr Wang joins Meta to lead the company’s efforts to develop ‘superintelligence’.
