Alphabet's Google, the largest customer of Scale AI, plans to cut ties with Scale after news broke that rival Meta is taking a 49% stake in the AI data-labeling startup, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Data-labeling firm Scale AI confirmed on Friday that it has received a "significant" investment from Meta that values the startup at $29 billion.

The social media giant is getting CEO Alexandr Wang in a $14.3 billion deal with Scale AI, as it plans to build out ‘superintelligent’ systems.

Internal documents show Google used ChatGPT to improve Bard. Scale AI workers were ordered to "see why GPT4 is better."

Google had planned to pay Scale AI about $200 million this year for the human-labeled training data that is crucial for developing technology, including the sophisticated AI models that power Gemini.

With Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang headed to Meta for high-profile role in artificial intelligence, the startup is promoting its strategy head.

Mark Zuckerberg's biggest bet on Meta AI will ride on the back of a fellow dropout who has dazzled Silicon Valley over the last decade.

Nvidia has rebranded Lepton AI as DGX Cloud Lepton and relaunched it in June 2025. According to Nvidia, the service delivers a unified AI platform and compute marketplace that connects developers to tens of thousands of GPUs from a global network of cloud providers.