Alexandr Wang became a billionaire at 24, planting a flag ahead of the AI gold rush.
Excited to share my cover story chronicling his $7.3 billion company Scale AI, providers of the picks, shovels and humans — hundreds of thousands of them — powering AI.
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Scale's next act is twofold: government and generative AI. It's in prime position as AI booms, but only if Wang can steer it past layoffs, a declining valuation and new technical challenges.
I hope you read my profile and our entire #ForbesAI50 package:
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To get there, Scale relied on more than just software. Its 600 employees are backed by 240,000 outsourcers who label the data used to train AI.
Wang says his human army is crucial. Critics see it as an assailable business — and an ethical can of worms.
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Scale already appears comfortably on IPO track. It claims $250 million of revenue last year.
It traces back to a bet years back to service AI's then-frontier: self-driving cars. By 2018, it had penned a huge deal with Apple's AV unit, Forbes learned.
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Only Mark Zuckerberg, Evan Spiegel and Kylie Jenner hit self-made billionaire status so young.
I spoke to Wang about the weight he shoulders — both in Silicon Valley, where Scale helped build ChatGPT, and in D.C. too, where the military is a customer.
https://t.co/zVY0bC3wsm
Alexandr Wang became a billionaire at 24, planting a flag ahead of the AI gold rush.
Excited to share my cover story chronicling his $7.3 billion company Scale AI, providers of the picks, shovels and humans — hundreds of thousands of them — powering AI.
https://t.co/zVY0bC3wsm
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