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AI phone calling for verticals
Over the past year, AI phone calling has leapt from Hayes Valley hackathon project to remarkable market traction....
Announcing our investment in Freed
Scale is excited to announce our investment in Freed’s Series A. Freed frees clinicians from their #1 source of...
Announcing our investment in Unwrap
Scale is thrilled to announce our lead investment in Unwrap’s Series A. Historically, product owners have relied...
The next decade of software is verticals and AI
For the last two decades, vertical software has sat in the shadow of horizontal software. Despite some fantastic...
Building the next generation of hardware: Why AI-powered engineering tools matter
From hand-drawn sketches and scrapped prototypes to powerful AI-driven simulations at lightning speed, hardware product...
Robotic Foundation Models are changing the way we build, buy, and fund robotics
For decades, robotics has captured the imagination of innovators and technologists alike. From Hal 9000 in 2001: A...
Announcing our investment in Bland
Scale is thrilled to announce our Series A investment in Bland. The company is a leader in productizing the latest...
Announcing our investment in Klarity
We’re excited about our Series B investment in Klarity, the leading document automation platform for finance and...
New ideas in AI: DPO has given us alignment without the overhead
Over the past 2 years, AI has seen ideas move from research to industry implementation at a record breaking...
Announcing our investment in Tavus
Scale is thrilled to announce our Series A investment in Tavus. The company is a leader in productizing the latest...
Why we win: The new wave of investment in defense
Right place, right time Since a16z partners Katherine Boyle’s category-defining blog post Building American Dynamism...
LLMs and Sneaky Big Markets
Large language models are poised to have an immediate effect on how businesses use software. While the exact scale and...
New Ideas in AI: Getting LLMs to Reason Through Chain-of-Thought Prompting
The latest session of our New Ideas in AI Series brought together yet another exciting group of leading engineers,...
The joy of not managing your own AI infrastructure in today’s world
Anyone paying attention to the current state of AI is aware of the exploding need for compute resources. Many of...
New Ideas In AI: Agents, their role, and viability in today’s world
Quick recap and video of the talk from our latest New Ideas in AI dinner series with guest speaker Joon Sung Park, who spoke about Generative Agents.
1,000 Engineering jobs in AI: Introducing Scale’s AI job board
Since 2015, 70%+ of our investing has focused on AI applications and infrastructure. We’re proud to have led early...
Open-sourcing the Scale chatbot
Applications that enable a natural language interface between people and data will be at the forefront of LLM...
Cognitive Collective: RLHF Is Not a Magic Wand for Alignment
it is nearly impossible to define alignment, let alone achieve it. Human beings, in all their variance, capacity, and...
What’s Up With Open Source LLMs?
We built a bot to help you get VCs off your back. Hopefully, this doesn’t put the author out of a job.
Peeking under the hood with ChatGPT plugins
The way these plugins are designed is as open as I can possibly imagine, which means we can peek under the hood at how...
Announcing Our Investment In Plus One Robotics
We are thrilled to announce that we are leading an investment in Plus One Robotics as part of the Company’s $50M...
Spot AI: Building the System of Engagement for Enterprise Video Intelligence
Enter Spot AI which is making computer vision practical for underserved users in everyday businesses and industries...
Loops: Turning Data into Actionable Opportunities
Today, Scale is leading the $14M Seed round in Loops. By using Loops’ platform, product teams can cut through the...
Generative AI Index Use Case Glossary
A quick glossary of our Generative AI Index use case definitions
Introducing: the Scale Generative AI Index
We are closely following the momentum of these overlapping but distinct trends. And to track our own work and share...
Observations from the Field: The Future of Generative AI
We believe that in this moment of generative AI hype, nothing is more valuable than hearing directly from entrepreneurs...
Doubling Down on Cognitive Apps: Announcing Scale Fund VIII
Today we’re excited to unveil our new fund, Scale Venture Partners Fund VIII. This $900M fund gives us the...
Foundation Models Are The New Public Cloud
Over the last few years, building an AI startup used to require “do-it-yourself AI,” which consisted of gathering...
Natural Language Generation
Writing this content is a desk worker’s low-skill labor, demanding little skill but lots of time. (The quality of...
Datagen Is the Future of Computer Vision Training Data
Andy Vitus on our investment in synthetic data leader Datagen.
Verusen: Revolutionary AI for the Supply Chain
Announcing the $25M Series B for intelligent supply chain software maker Verusen. Scale has invested in supply chain technology since 2016.
Robin Healthcare: Cracking the Code on AI in the Exam Room
Today we’re pleased to announce that Scale is leading a $50M Series B round in healthcare technology company Robin.
VergeSense: Computer Vision for the Post-COVID Office
Scale has led the $60M Series C round in VergeSense, the leading AI- and sensor-powered workplace analytics platform.
Comet’s Series A: Investing in the MLOps Tool Stack
Scale's Andy Vitus on why we invested in the Series A for Comet, the MLOps platform that lets data scientists manage, debug, monitor, and share ML models.
Viz.ai: The System of Action for Diagnostic Decision Making
We are excited to announce our investment in Viz.ai, a company that is using intelligent software to reduce the time to...
Cognitive Applications with Intelligence Inside
We believe that the next decade will result in the emergence of a new class of application software which we term...
Observe.AI Transforms Contact Centers with Voice AI
Announcing our investment in Observe.AI, the leading provider of next-generation voice AI that helps contact center...
The Intelligent Connected World
An overview of the interconnected world of intelligent software agents.
AllyO: At Last, Conversational AI Done Right
End-to-end AI recruiter AllyO shows how conversational AI can drastically improve efficiency in a traditionally low-tech market
TechSee: AR Plus AI to Transform CX
Announcing our investment in augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) leader TechSee