Data labelling, evaluation and post-training infrastructure for AI labs.
Scale AI supplies human-annotated training data, model evaluation and reinforcement-learning-from-human-feedback services to frontier labs, enterprises and government customers.
Open roles fell from 124 to 96 over the trailing 30 days. The pullback is concentrated in machine learning engineer postings.
Falling postings tend to precede a hiring freeze rather than follow one.
Estimated employees moved from 1,175 to 1,100 across the trailing 90 days, based on public profile and directory changes.
A modest decline, which at this scale is often attrition rather than a reduction.
The founder has moved out of the operating CEO role. The company says commercial and government contracts are unaffected.
Founder transitions at data-services companies often precede a strategy narrowing.
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