AI数据标注公司Scale AI宣布裁员200名员工，约占其总劳动力的14%，并停止与500名全球承包商的合作。此次裁员恰逢Meta向Scale AI投资143亿美元，同时Scale AI的CEO亚历山大·王加入Meta的超级智能部门。Scale AI临时CEO杰森·德罗格在一份内部备忘录中表示，裁员原因是数据标注业务扩张过快导致官僚主义和团队使命模糊，以及市场需求的变化。Meta对Scale AI的投资使其持有该公司49%的股份，这可能导致OpenAI和Google因利益冲突而与Scale AI断绝合作。Scale AI的重组旨在专注于企业和政府合同，并计划在今年晚些时候为此类业务招聘数百名新员工。

Scale AI裁员200人，占员工总数14%，并终止500名全球承包商合作，原因包括业务扩张过快、官僚主义以及市场需求变化。

Meta向Scale AI投资143亿美元并获得49%股份，同时Scale AI CEO亚历山大·王加入Meta的超级智能团队，此举可能导致OpenAI和Google因竞争关系中止与Scale AI的合作。

Scale AI的重组旨在聚焦企业和政府合同业务，并计划在今年晚些时候扩招相关领域人才，以适应新的战略方向。

Meta CEO马克·扎克伯格对Llama模型的表现不满，促使其亲自招募顶尖AI人才组建超级智能项目，此举对整个AI行业人才流动产生了深远影响。

AI data-labeling company Scale AI is laying off 200 employees, following a dramatic month with Meta.

Scale AI is cutting 14 percent of its workforce, and will also end work with 500 global contractors, Bloomberg reported. This comes after Scale AI received $14.3 billion of investment from Meta and simultaneously lost its CEO Alexandr Wang to Meta's superintelligence group as part of the deal.

According to an internal memo from Scale AI's interim CEO Jason Droege viewed by Bloomberg, the layoffs are due to its data labeling business scaling too quickly, which led to bureaucracy and "unhelpful confusion about the team’s mission." The memo also cited "shifts in market demand."

Meta's poaching of top AI talent to gain a competitive edge over its rivals has had a strong orbital effect over the AI industry, including pulling Scale AI under its influence. Meta's investment in Scale AI gives it a 49 percent stake in the company, which has reportedly caused OpenAI and Google cut ties with the data-labeling company due to competing interests. Scale AI is known for labeling and annotating training data, which is a crucial part of developing AI models. Scale AI and OpenAI previously had a longstanding relationship, which goes back to when Wang and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were roommates during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mark Zuckerberg was reportedly disappointed with Meta's Llama models, which prompted him to personally recruit top AI leaders and researchers for an ambitious project to develop AI superintelligence. Employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Apple have left to join Meta's new team, shaking up the entire industry.

A Scale AI spokesperson told Bloomberg that the company's layoffs are part of a restructuring to focus on enterprise and government contracts. The company plans to hire hundreds of people later this year for these efforts.

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