• Despite Meta’s $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI that is shaking up the AI landscape, OpenAI plans to keep working with the startup, according to CFO Sarah Friar. Friar emphasized the importance of maintaining a diverse vendor ecosystem to support AI development. Meanwhile, Scale’s other key customers like Google, Microsoft, and xAI are reportedly looking to distance themselves from the startup.

OpenAI’s CFO, Sarah Friar, says the company plans to continue working with Scale AI despite the startup’s recent multi-billion-dollar partnership with rival Meta.

“We don’t just buy from Scale,” Friar said at the Viva Technology conference in Paris. “We work with many vendors on the data front.”

“As models have gotten smarter, you’re going into a place where you need real expertise…we have academics and experts telling us that they are finding novel things in their space,” she said. “We don’t want to ice the ecosystem, because acquisitions are going to happen and I think if we ice each other out, I think we’re actually going to slow the pace of innovation.”

Founded in 2016, Scale AI supplies large volumes of labeled and curated training data and works with several major AI companies including Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta. On Thursday, Meta announced it was investing $14.3 billion for a 49% stake in the startup—a major move for Meta’s AI capabilities but one that reportedly made some of the Big Tech’s competitors wary of using Scale’s services.

Scale intends to keep operating as an independent business but with deeper commercial ties to Meta. The company’s CEO Alexandr Wang will also join Meta’s team working on “superintelligence” and be replaced by Jason Droege as interim CEO. Wang will remain on Scale’s board and said in a note to employees he would poach a few “Scalien” employees to take with him to Meta, but did not identify them directly.

Scale’s largest customer, Google, reportedly plans to cut ties with the AI data-labeling startup in the wake of the Meta deal. According to a report from Reuters, the tech giant has already held conversations with some of Scale’s rivals to shift much of the workload, representing a significant loss of business for the startup now valued at $29 billion. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment made by Fortune.

Microsoft and Elon Musk’s xAI also reportedly looking to pull back from Scale after the high-profile deal, and despite Friar’s comments, OpenAI reportedly made a similar decision to pull back on some of its business with the startup several months ago.

Representatives for OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment made by Fortune outside of normal working hours.

Meta’s $14.3 billion AI bet on Scale

Meta’s deal with Scale AI bolsters Meta’s AI credentials after Zuckerberg reaffirmed the company’s commitment to building technology that outstrips human intelligence—and Meta’s rivals—earlier this year.

Meta has trailed rivals in consumer-facing AI and, unlike competitors like Google and OpenAI, has chosen to release its Llama models as open source. The tech giant’s recent Llama 4 AI models received a lukewarm response from developers, and the company hasn’t yet released its most advanced model, Llama 4 Behemoth. The pause on Behemoth was due to concerns from leadership that the model didn’t sufficiently advance on previous models, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Zuckerberg’s primary gain from the investment appears to be Wang. The 28-year-old will join a reported 50-person superintelligence AI team at Meta that is aiming to beat rivals like Google and OpenAI to artificial general intelligence (AGI). According to Bloomberg, Zuckerberg is personally recruiting for the team after the CEO was disappointed by the reaction to Llama 4.

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• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang isn’t sure about Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s recent predictions about AI-driven job automation. Speaking at VivaTech in Paris, Huang pushed back on the idea that AI could soon replace half of all entry-level office roles and questioned the philosophy behind limiting AI development to a few actors.

Jensen Huang is not on board with some of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s predictions about advanced AI. Responding to a question about Amodei’s recent prediction that AI could automate up to half of all entry-level office jobs within five years, Huang said he “pretty much disagree[d] with almost everything” his fellow AI CEO says.

“One, he believes that AI is so scary that only they should do it,” Huang said of Amodei at a press briefing at Viva Technology in Paris. “Two, [he believes] that AI is so expensive, nobody else should do it … And three, AI is so incredibly powerful that everyone will lose their jobs, which explains why they should be the only company building it.

“I think AI is a very important technology; we should build it and advance it safely and responsibly,” Huang continued. “If you want things to be done safely and responsibly, you do it in the open … Don’t do it in a dark room and tell me it’s safe.”

Anthropic was founded by Amodei and other former OpenAI employees in 2021 with safety as one of its core missions. Many of Anthropic’s founding team reportedly left OpenAI owing to disagreements about the direction and safety culture at the company.

Amodei has made several public statements about his belief in the potential existential risks of AI. He’s said that he believes humanity may one day lose control of AI systems if they become smarter than humans. He’s also raised concerns about rogue actors weaponizing advanced AI to create bioweapons, engineer cyberattacks, or unleash tools of mass disruption long before machines surpass human intelligence.

More recently, in an interview with Axios, he predicted AI could wipe out roughly 50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs and urged lawmakers to prepare now to protect people’s livelihoods.

Huang acknowledged that the tech may have some impact on employees, but dismissed Amodei’s recent bold claim.

“Everybody’s jobs will be changed. Some jobs will be obsolete, but many jobs are going to be created … Whenever companies are more productive, they hire more people,” he said.

Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fortune.

Quantum computing’s ‘inflection point’ 

Huang made the comments in a press briefing following Nvidia’s GTC Paris conference, where the company announced a new partnership with French startup Mistral as part of a push to develop European computing capacity.

Huang said Nvidia had more than 20 “AI factories” in the works across the continent, promising European researchers and startups that their “GPU shortage will be resolved” soon.

The CEO also touched on Nvidia’s quantum computing efforts, spotlighting Nvidia’s hybrid quantum-classical platform, CUDA-Q, and claiming that quantum computing is hitting an “inflection point.” Huang said that the tech could start solving real-world problems in the next few years.

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