Scale AI appointed Francis DeSouza as chief executive officer, effective August 10. DeSouza brings over thirty years of enterprise technology experience to the AI company. He previously led Google Cloud's security products and served as Illumina's CEO. Scale AI recently added BP and Mayo Clinic as new enterprise customers. The company provides data powering frontier AI models and develops AI applications.

Scale AI has named ex-Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, a year after founder Alexandr Wang left for Meta, signalling a pivot to enterprise AI.

deSouza replaces Alexandr Wang, who left for Meta last year.