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Scale AI: Leadership Change
Jason Droege appointed as new CEO replacing founder Alexandr Wang who moved to Meta
Source: Forbes Australia
The leadership read
Leadership transitions often precede broader artificial intelligence bench-strengthening over the next two quarters.
Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 111.1 (Hot) (up 5.2 month-on-month), EMEA is at easing (-4.4pts) on signal share.
Scale AI: 1 signal in the last 90 days — in line with the Artificial Intelligence median of 1 across 93 tracked companies; 0.1% of MitchelLake's EMEA signal flow.
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