Scale AI CEO Stresses Startup’s Independence After Meta Deal

Scale AI’s new leader said the data-labeling startup remains independent from Meta Platforms Inc. despite the social media giant taking a 49% stake just weeks ago, and is focused on expanding its business.

Interim Chief Executive Officer Jason Droege said Meta, a customer since 2019, won’t receive special treatment even after its $14.3 billion investment.

“There’s no preferential access that they have

Jason Droege

Photographer: Martina Albertazzi/Bloomberg.

to anything,” Droege said Tuesday in an interview, one of his first since taking the interim CEO role in mid-June. “They are a customer, and we will support them like we do our other customers, that’s the ...