Scale AI lays off 200 employees: ‘We ramped up our GenAI capacity too quickly’ | The Verge
Meta acquired nearly half of Scale AI.
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Scale AI is cutting about 14% of its staff—roughly 200 employees plus 500 contractors—just a month after Meta plunked down $14.3 billion for a 49% stake and launched a superintelligence lab with former Scale CEO Alexandr Wang. CEO Jason Droege admits they “ramped up our GenAI capacity too quickly,” spawning bureaucracy, redundancies, and mission confusion.
To bounce back, Scale’s slashing its 16 GenAI pods down to five core teams (code, languages, experts, experimental, audio) and merging its go-to-market crew into a four-pod “demand generation” unit. Low-growth AI projects are getting the boot, but the company insists it’s still well-funded and plans to hire hundreds more later in 2025 across enterprise and public sector roles.
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