Uber has been quietly building a data-labeling arm to sell annotation and RLHF work to frontier labs, positioning its gig workforce as a supply-side alternative to Scale AI and Surge. A leadership shakeout this early signals either underperformance against buyer expectations or a strategic pivot on pricing and quality control.
Worth watching whether this dents Uber's ability to compete for lab contracts as the annotation market consolidates around fewer, larger vendors.
Uber Shakes Up AI Data Labeling Business, Dismissing Top Leaders
