Meta’s massive investment in Scale AI may be giving some of the startup’s biggest customers pause. Reuters reports that Google had planned to pay Scale AI $200 million this year but is now planning to cut ties with the startup and is having conversations with its competitors.

Alphabet’s Google plans to end its relationship with Scale AI, an AI data-annotation startup, after Meta acquired a 49% stake in the company, valuing it at $29bn, reported Reuters. As Scale AI’s largest client,