Scale AI Strategist: Data Companies Thrive Because Labs Lack Product Surfaces

Sarah Hooker of Scale AI argues data companies are profiting handsomely because frontier labs lack the product surfaces critical to the next era of AI agents, echoing @jwuphysics's view.

2026-10-15 ~ 2026-10-15 · 2 related posts

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