After Meta acquired a $14 billion stake in Scale AI last year and former CEO and cofounder Alexandr Wang left, the future of the company was unclear.

Scale had been a powerhouse in the market of human data, where armies of clickworkers generate data to train cutting edge AI models like Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. But the company’s new CEO Jason Droege has shifted its investment away from data labeling and toward helping large enterprises develop their own internal AI applications.

That strategy appears to be working, with Scale telling Forbes it tallied just shy of $1 billion in revenue last year, though part of that growth could be due in large part to its new shareholder.

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