Company
Introducing: Our New API Docs
The latest update to our API documentation provides a better user experience and more consistent experience between our API documentation and the rest of our platform.
September 16th 2020
Blog
Company Updates & Technology Articles
Company
Reaffirming Our Commitment to Building Customer Trust: Scale + SOC 2
At Scale AI, we take the trust of our customers and the security of their data seriously. We are pleased to reaffirm our commitment to building customer trust with the availability of our SOC 2 report.
September 14th 2020
Company
Welcoming Brad Porter to Scale AI as our first CTO
As we continue to develop our ambitious roadmap to accelerate the development of AI, I’m delighted to welcome Brad Porter—formerly Amazon’s VP and Distinguished Engineer of Robotics—as our first CTO.
August 31st 2020
Engineering
Discovering Useful Sentence Representations from Large Pre-Trained Language Models
As our AI/ML team continues to grow, we aim to contribute to the broader research community by conducting and publishing cutting edge research. In this blog post, we spotlight a research paper we submitted on learning useful sentence representations from large transformer-based language models.
August 20th 2020
Engineering
If You’re De-Biasing The Model, It’s Too Late
Unless machine models are trained on representative data, they can develop serious biases, significantly harming underrepresented groups and leading to ineffective products. In this blog post, we investigated the CoNLL-2003 dataset—a standard for building algorithms that recognize named entities in text—and found that the data is highly skewed toward male names. Read on to find out how we mitigated this bias.
August 18th 2020
Product
Introducing: Scale Nucleus
Our latest product offering provides advanced tooling for understanding, visualizing, curating, and collaborating on your data – allowing teams to build better ML models via a powerful interface and APIs.
August 5th 2020
People
Keeping The Team Close While Distancing
Fostering connection when everyone is remote is tricky. Shelter-in-place restrictions pose new challenges that inspired our people team to think of creative ways to keep the team connected. In this blog, we highlight and share our social connection initiatives.
July 1st 2020
Company
Introducing: PandaSet. The world's most advanced LiDAR dataset for commercial use
We are proud to introduce PandaSet: a new open-source dataset for training machine learning (ML) models for autonomous driving released in partnership with the LiDAR manufacturer Hesai.
May 20th 2020
Engineering
How we Scale Machine Learning
In this blog, we discuss how Scale AI uses machine learning (ML) to supercharge its data annotation pipeline, enumerate some of the technical challenges, and describe our approach to create scalable ML solutions.
May 18th 2020
Product
Now Available: Scale Document
Our latest product offering is capable of supporting a range of inputs from PDFs, Microsoft Word Documents, JPEGs and more. Scale Document builds on the previously released Scale Text product to better support customers with document processing and understanding use cases.
April 22nd 2020
Product
Introducing a New Look for Scale AI Products
We have expanded our data annotation products over the years to support an increasing range of data inputs and annotation types. As our data annotation products grew, it became clear that we needed a better way to group and name our products. We invite you to explore our updated product line up.
April 20th 2020
Engineering
Scale AI Machine Learning Digest - Q1 2020
Machine learning is a field of study with tremendous strides being made through active academic research. The machine learning team at Scale AI regularly hosts reading groups to discuss papers they find interesting. In this blog post, we go over the papers the team has read throughout the quarter and provide insights on how a paper influenced our own work here at Scale AI when relevant.
April 6th 2020
Company
Supporting researchers and our community during COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, it affects all of our communities in different ways. The health and safety of Scale’s employees, as well as our global community of labelers, is a critical matter and a responsibility we do not take lightly. We also want Scale to make a contribution to combating this disease if we can.
March 17th 2020
Company
Open Sourcing the World's First AV Dataset for Wintry Environments
In partnership with researchers from the University of Toronto and University of Waterloo, Scale AI is pleased to announce the release of the Canadian Adverse Driving Conditions (CADC) dataset. The CADC dataset is the first of its kind to advance perception under winter driving conditions.
February 3rd 2020
Engineering
How to Label 1M Data Points/Week
How do you scalably maintain the quality of labels, without having labelers check each other’s work? Take a deep dive into how we solved this problem while working with OpenAI on fine tuning their GPT-2 model.
November 12th 2019
Company
Scale AI Selected as One of America's Most Promising AI Companies
Scale AI is pleased to be selected as one of America’s Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies by Forbes.
September 17th 2019
Company
Scale AI Selected as One of LinkedIn’s 2019 Top Startups in the U.S.
Scale AI is pleased to be selected as one of LinkedIn’s 2019 Top Startups in the U.S. Read on to find out the top three reasons you should join Scale AI.
September 3rd 2019
General
Is Elon Wrong About LiDAR?
Elon Musk recently took a high-profile swipe at LiDAR technology, predicting that “anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed” and that the only hardware Tesla needs is the existing suite of cameras and sensors installed on their vehicles. As leaders in data annotation or data labeling for autonomous driving companies, we compared training data from both camera and LiDAR to figure out how well each system will work.
August 12th 2019
Company
Scale AI’s Series C: Building the data platform to accelerate machine learning
Our mission at Scale is to accelerate the development of AI applications. We’re proud of what we’ve built over the last three years, and today we’re announcing our Series C funding round to support our continued work against that mission.
August 5th 2019
People
Why We Joined Scale
Scale has officially expanded into Europe with a new office in Munich! I’d like to take this opportunity to have the Scale EMEA team introduce themselves, talk a little about why each of us joined, and provide a way to get in touch.
July 26th 2019
Product
Introducing Point Cloud Segmentation
Scale AI is pleased to announce the launch of Sensor Fusion Segmentation - Scale’s endpoint for point cloud segmentation.
June 24th 2019
People
Positive Externalities: Life of a Labeler
At Scale, we contract a lot of people from all over the world as labelers. We’ve believed for a while that creating jobs like this can be very impactful — so we asked some of our labelers for times when working for Scale made a positive difference in their lives.
June 4th 2019
Engineering
Training Data - Quantity is no Panacea
Deep Learning models have the capacity to get better with more data seemingly without limit. To get a well-functioning model, however, it is not enough to just have large amounts of data, you also need high quality data annotation.
May 1st 2019
Company
Scale Engineering, Product and Design Teams
We’ve had an incredible group of people join Scale—and we’re still hiring! We wanted to take a moment to call out some of the recent team members who have joined Scale.
April 29th 2019
Engineering
nuScenes by Aptiv ImageNet for Autonomous Vehicles
Scale AI is pleased to announce the full release of nuScenes by Aptiv —a large-scale open source dataset for autonomous driving. Scale AI was involved as Aptiv’s data labeling partner on this initiative.
March 29th 2019
People
Life at Scale
When I first joined Scale, we just offered 2D annotation products. A few of our self-driving customers mentioned off-hand that they would also potentially use a 3D annotation product. After roughly sizing the market and contemplating the trade-offs, we decided to build a minimum viable product to see if this additional business was a good direction for the company.
February 12th 2019
Company
Announcing the Scale and Ouster Data Integration Partnership
Scale is committed to accelerating the development of AI applications and serving customers with high-speed, accurate, and affordable data annotation. As part of this mission, Scale and Ouster are pleased to announce a data integration partnership that makes it significantly easier and faster for Ouster customers to send their LiDAR data to the Scale platform for annotation.
December 4th 2018
Product
Metadata to Enrich Image Annotations
At Scale, we pride ourselves in developing superior tooling and implementing forward-looking solutions for problems our customers on the cutting edge of computer vision, including self-driving cars, AR/VR, and drones encounter. For example, our 2D image annotation endpoints now support both per-annotation attributes and label hierarchies, allowing you to get richer labeled data out of Scale.
October 15th 2018
Company
Why I Joined Scale
In the grand scheme of things, most decisions that we make in life are fairly inconsequential. What to eat for lunch, where to get a haircut, which route to take to work… while there’s a small chance each choice has a dramatic impact - maybe you meet your soulmate on the bus - it most likely won’t.
September 18th 2018
Product
Introducing AI-Assisted Semantic Segmentation at Scale
At Scale, we are excited to help you solve your most challenging computer vision problems. One important and well-studied problem within computer vision is that of semantic segmentation, which aims to understand images at the pixel level.
August 22nd 2018
Engineering
How We Made It Easy for Anyone at Our Company to Trigger Alerts
Scale relies on Mode Analytics for internal SQL and Python based reporting and analytics, helping power our operations, insights and business decisions. Many of these reports we set to run on a schedule, so that we can always go to a report and see data that’s no more than fifteen minutes to an hour out of date
August 20th 2018
Company
Announcing Our Series B with Index Ventures and Accel
We have exciting news to share today! Scale raised $18M in Series B funding led by Index Ventures with Accel, Y Combinator, Drew Houston, and Justin Kan joining. Mike Volpi of Index Ventures will be joining our board. Scale has come a long way from the dorms at MIT, and we still have a long way to go.
August 8th 2018
Engineering
Adding a Dimension: Annotating 3d Objects with 2d Data
Here at Scale, one of the image annotation services we offer is Cuboid Annotation, which annotates your two-dimensional images with projections of cuboids enclosing objects such as cars, trucks, pedestrians, traffic cones, you name it.
July 31st 2018
Engineering
How to make MongoDB not suck for analytics
TLDR: Row stores are fast to write but slow to read. Column stores are fast to read but slow to write. Load data from Mongo into Parquet files for fast querying using AWS Athena.
June 26th 2018
Company
Scale Engineering Team++
We’ve had an incredible group of people join Scale—and we’re still hiring! We wanted to take a moment to call out the amazing engineering team at Scale:
June 9th 2018
Engineering
Introducing Teams
You can now be a part of a team on Scale! Until recently, only the original creator of a task could access its history, visually inspect responses, and provide direct feedback on quality. It was a hurdle to our users getting the fullest possible value out of our platform.
April 3rd 2018
Product
Introducing Our New Dashboard
Today we are happy to announce a new version of our customer dashboard! We’ve cleaned up the dashboard so it’s faster and more efficient for you to use.
November 11th 2017
Product
Increasing the Performance of Dynamic Next.JS Websites
One of the most obvious signs that a site is made with Next.JS is that you load the page, you click a link to another section and it loads instantly. That’s because when a page is loaded, Next.JS will download in the background all the other pages linked with tags.
November 6th 2017
Customers
Guest Post: Cloudinary Uses Scale to Focus on Image Compression
We recently worked with the team at Cloudinary to help build and evaluate a better image compression and quality measurements. The results of Cloudinary’s work on Scale were very insightful and we wanted to share it broadly to demonstrate how more companies can leverage human judgments to build high quality features.
August 25th 2017
Product
Announcing Our Series A With Accel
We are excited to announce that we have raised a $4.5 million Series A round of funding led by Accel. Along with this funding, Accel’s Daniel Levine has joined Scale’s board. The funding will be used to invest in our rapid growth, expand our offerings, and grow our team.
July 16th 2017
Product
Training Data For Self Driving Cars With Scale
One of the largest automobile companies in the world uses Scale to help build self-driving cars. Self-driving cars (SDCs) are one of the most exciting technologies being developed today. If they become a reality, the benefits that come will significantly impact our lives in several ways.
January 16th 2017