Scale AI

includes Scale AI SEAL

5 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 11, 2024 by Nathan Lambert · said 47 times in 22 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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brought up most by Nathan Lambert (9), Shawn Wang (8), Varun Mohan (5), Mike Conover (4), Alessio Fanelli (4), Yi Tay (2), Pranav Reddy (1), Martin Casado (1)

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Jan 11, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Lambert: Scale AI has historically struggled to retain technical ML talent
“I think they've historically had trouble keeping, like, technical ML talent, but they've started a new research lab, so that should help.”
Nathan Lambert Jan 11, 2024 ▶ 1:34:33 The Origin and Future of RLHF: the secret ingredient for ChatGPT - with Nathan Lambert
Jan 11, 2024 negative
Opinion
Lambert: Annotator disagreement data in RLHF is not used for anything
“I don't really think this disagreement data is used for anything, but it's good to know, like, what the distribution of prompts is, who's doing it, how many samples you have, controlling the workforce.”
Nathan Lambert Jan 11, 2024 ▶ 42:20 The Origin and Future of RLHF: the secret ingredient for ChatGPT - with Nathan Lambert
Jun 11, 2024
Insight
Conover: Repeatable AI annotation pipelines require unsexy people management
“It's one thing to do like a single monolithic push to create a, Training data set like that, or an evaluation corpus, but I think it's another to have a repeatable process, and a lot of that, I think, realistically is pretty unsexy, like, people management wor…”
Mike Conover Jun 11, 2024 ▶ 30:14 How AI is Eating Finance - with Mike Conover of Brightwave
Jul 28, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mohan: Scale AI increased revenue 10x with each major pivot
“Effectively, it starts out as, like, you know, human task interface, then an AV labeling company, then a cataloging company, then Now a generative AI labeling company, and every time the revenue of the company kind of goes up by a factor of 10, even though the…”
Varun Mohan Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 2:37:44 🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
Apr 27, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Younis: Scale AI is fundamentally a data labeling services company
“You know, scale was, is more of a services company, data labeling company, fundamentally.”
Qasar Younis Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 5:14 The $15B Physical AI Company: Simulation, Autonomy OS, Neural Sim, & 1K Engineers—Applied Intuition
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