ScaleAI wants to be America’s AI arms dealer
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The tech start-up says the United States needs Silicon Valley to compete with China. Others fear a deadly arms race.
Scale, which was co-founded by Alexandr Wang in 2016 to help other companies organize and label data to train AI algorithms, has been aggressively pitching itself as the company that will help the U.S. military in its existential battle with China, offering to help the Pentagon pull better insights out of the reams of information it generates every day, build better autonomous vehicles and even create chatbots that can help advise military commanders during combat.
It scored a $249 million contract last year to provide a range of AI tech to the Department of Defense. Scale also counts the Army, Air Force, the Marine Corps University and military truck maker Oshkosh among its individual customers.
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