# Scale AI AI data infrastructure company that pivoted from commercial data labeling to become the Pentagon's primary AI testing, evaluation, and deployment partner. Founded by [[Alexandr Wang]], who became the world's youngest self-made billionaire. ## Defense Contracts - **Thunderforge** — Won prime contract for DOD's flagship AI agent program for military planning and operations. Deployed to U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and European Command. - Thunderforge partners: [[Anduril]] (Lattice platform) and Microsoft (LLMs). - **$199M** in combined Army and Pentagon contracts for AI testing and evaluation. - First company tapped by Pentagon to set the path for testing and evaluating large language models for military use. ## Strategic Position Scale AI sits at a critical juncture in the defense AI stack: it provides the data infrastructure and evaluation framework that military AI systems need to be trained, tested, and validated. While [[Palantir]] does data analytics and [[Anduril]] builds autonomous hardware, Scale AI provides the AI development pipeline that both depend on. ## See Also - [[Alexandr Wang]] - [[Thunderforge Program]] - [[Anduril]] - [[Dual-Use AI]]