Hi everyone I'm David Jeans I'm a senior writer at Forbes on the tech team

cover AI National Security and Defense. I am joined in from San Francisco, Kenrick Kai, he's senior reporter on the

tech team as well and we're going to talk today about a story we published just

recently about major AI company called

Scale AI. They've raised, you know, they're valued more than 7 billion dollars and

they've been receiving a lot of hype and interest recently about some of the work they're doing.

But together we sort of took a look at what the company's been doing in the federal space and trying to work with the US government.

So I think it would be great to hear from you, Ken Rick, on how we first became interested

in scale and from the you know from

from from there we can you know sort of talk more about why

they decided to target you know

contracts and and generate revenue from the U.S. government.

Yeah, absolutely. Thanks David.

So, I've been keeping an eye on scale for a couple years now and we put the CEO Alexander Wang on our magazine cover last year

because scale has emerged in the last couple years as one of the most vocal and high profile startups building in the artificial

intelligence space. CEO Wang was at one point the youngest self-made billionaire as we picked him on our

billionaires list and the company has followed a couple different AI waves to

increasing revenue a couple years ago. and to allow those cars to drive autonomously.

And recently we're hearing that their revenue has continued to skyrocket from about $250 million

in annual recurring revenue last year to north of 700 million.

So this is a company that continues to position themselves as one of the key infrastructure suppliers for the AI ecosystem.

But in the course of reporting

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