[US Media: Scale AI Opens Platform to the US Department of Defense with $100 Million Contract] According to AXIOS, data annotation company Scale AI will open its platform to the US Department of Defense through a contract capped at $100 million. This contract will enable the Department of Defense to leverage Scale AI's end-to-end products to acquire artificial intelligence capabilities and deploy them on classified networks. This means the company will provide the Department of Defense with its data engine (used for processing the department's data) and its generative AI platform (used for testing models). Scale AI also stated that its services will cover both secret-level and top-secret-level networks.