people · May 16, 2026
Scale AI CEO Jason Droege outlines 2026 growth with defense and enterprise contracts
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Scale AI CEO Jason Droege published a May 14, 2026, blog post marking the company's tenth anniversary and projecting continued expansion. Scale AI has applied 15 billion human decisions to train leading AI models across 150 languages and paid over $1 billion to data contributors since 2016. The company secured two major Department of Defense contracts in 2025 totaling nearly $200 million and leads Project Thunderforge for AI agent integration in military planning. Scale AI's U.S. government business achieved its best quarter in Q3 2025 with multi-million-dollar awards. Droege noted the apps business is expected to double in 2026.
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