Scale AI

In twenty eighteen, AI companies faced an invisible problem. Algorithms needed data to learn. A Tesla needed thousands of pedestrian images from every angle and lighting. No company had labeled them. Humans had to mark what was a person, a car, a stop sign. The bottleneck was not intelligence. It was labor. Data was the constraint. Alexandr Wang built Scale AI to solve this problem. He assembled thousands of contractors worldwide. They labeled images for two cents each. A car image required five minutes. The contractor earned twenty-four dollars daily. Scale provided platform, quality control, payment infrastructure. The data companies could not make themselves. Nobody else could do this. Tesla labeled images for one dollar.