Today, we are excited to announce a multi-year strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate enterprise and public sector generative AI adoption. With an exponentially growing number of enterprise and public sector organizations looking to incorporate generative AI (GenAI) to augment their workforce, challenges remain in successfully deploying this technology in production. 

All of our external success—powering breakthroughs in L4 autonomy, partnering with OpenAI on RLHF going back to GPT-2, supporting the DoD and every major AI lab, and the recent $1bn financing transaction—all of it is downstream from us hiring the best people for the job. Talent is our #1 input metric.

With the rapid advancement of AI model capabilities, it is necessary, now more than ever, to test and evaluate AI systems to ensure that it is safe to deploy for its intended use case. While AI developers aim to make models safe, unforeseen vulnerabilities like model hallucinations or bias still exist. As the government looks to adopt and scale their use of AI, it is critical that they are acquiring and using safe, ethical and responsible AI systems. 

Today marks the one-year anniversary of Donovan, our pioneering mission-focused AI application designed to responsibly support the public sector. Utilizing a variety of large language models (LLMs), Donovan has helped to inform the ways government organizations can leverage AI to make faster, more informed decisions and minimize time searching for information.  

We now live in a world where there are hundreds of large language models. But as these models become increasingly powerful and widely deployed, comparison of their performance and safety remains opaque. 

For 8 years, Scale has been the leading AI data foundry helping fuel the most exciting advancements in AI, including autonomous vehicles, defense applications, and generative AI.

When Scale introduced Donovan, a large language model (LLM) platform built for the public sector, one of the top questions we were asked was, “Why Donovan?” For Scale, Donovan is not just a name, it is a tribute to the visionary Major General William “Wild Bill” Donovan, the founder of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) the precursor to the modern Central Intelligence Agency – and the father of modern intelligence in the United States. Donovan’s life and ethos embodies the qualities we value most, particularly innovation and a forward-looking vision.