Scale AI built its business labeling the images and data that train machine-learning models, then pivoted hard into defense. Its Donovan platform fuses classified and open-source intelligence for military decision-making and targeting, and it labels drone and satellite imagery for the Pentagon. Backed early by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.
Scale AI won multimillion-dollar defense deals to apply its data-labeling and Donovan platform to military intelligence and targeting, putting a consumer AI-labeling firm at the center of automated warfare.