Uber Technologies has parted ways with two senior figures inside its AI data labeling division, according to a Bloomberg report. The move is notable not because the departures are unusual in tech, but because of where they land: inside one of Uber’s most deliberate strategic bets of the past two years.
The division in question is Uber AI Solutions, and Uber has been pouring resources into it since the unit launched in November 2024.
What Uber AI Solutions actually is
Here is the thing about data labeling: every AI model that learns to recognize a stop sign, a pedestrian, or a lidar point cloud needs someone to first tell it what those things are. That work, tagging and annotating raw data at industrial scale, is what Uber AI Solutions sells.
The unit launched in November 2024 under the name Scaled Solutions, initially rolling out across five markets. The rebranding to Uber AI Solutions followed as the division expanded its scope and ambition.
