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Roy: Manual data labeling by Scale AI will no longer be relevant
“What they did, their job, again, like actually having people manually tag, like large networks of people manually tagging data to make it more ingestible for a large language model or for a training, It's not going to be as relevant anymore. You can even now h…”
Kantrowitz: Meta agrees to $14.8B 49% stake in Scale AI
“Meta has agreed to take a 49%
stake in the data labeling firm Scale AI for 14.8 billion.
Meta will send the cash to Scale's existing shareholders and place the startup CEO Alexander Wang, former Big Technology podcast guest in a top position inside Meta.
Meta…”
Wang: Pure synthetic AI training data has underperformed industry expectations
“One of the things that we've seen over the past few past year in particular is that synthetic data has not worked as well as I think everybody had hoped. You know, pure synthetic data, just using data generated from the models to try to train future models, th…”
Kantrowitz: Scale AI now does most of its training via reinforcement learning
“Scale AI, Alexander Wang's company, they told me recently that most of the training that they're doing is reinforcement learning, where you build environments for the bots and they go and they try to figure out what to do.”
Kantrowitz: Scale AI shifted majority of training to reinforcement learning
“I just did the story for with about scale AI saying that the majority of their training has moved to reinforcement learning where they train models to act in specific environments like filling out forms, and then they baked those capabilities back Into the mod…”
Kantrowitz: Zuckerberg's Scale AI deal is the exact right move
“So, to me, this is Zuckerberg clearly seeing an issue with his company and making, I would say, the strategic exact right move to fix it, unlike another company that we've seen within flagging
AI product that is, it seems like it's still in denial about what i…”
Hendrycks: I earn $1 a year from xAI and $12 from Scale
“My appointment at XAI, I get a dollar a year. At Scale, I've at Scale AI, I've increased my salary exponentially to where I get 12 dollars a year, a dollar per month from Scale.”
Wang: In 2025, AI focus will shift to compute and data equally
“And I think what's going to happen in 25 is we're going to we're going to only be focused on who can create newer, better chips or bigger data centers with more chips, but also who can create newer and better data. And one of the things that I think we're goin…”