{"id":1025129,"date":"2026-07-31T08:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025129"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:37:20","slug":"scale-ai-taps-former-google-cloud-executive-as-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/31\/scale-ai-taps-former-google-cloud-executive-as-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Scale AI taps former Google Cloud executive as CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scale AI said on Thursday it had named former Google Cloud executive Francis DeSouza as chief executive officer, effective August 10, as the AI company looks to expand its data and applications businesses. <\/p>\n<p>DeSouza will succeed Jason Droege, who has \u200cserved as \u2060interim CEO since \u2060June last year. Droege will work with deSouza in the coming months to support the transition, Scale said. <\/p>\n<p>Founded by Alexandr Wang, Scale provides data that powers frontier AI models and develops AI applications for businesses and governments. Last year, Wang joined Meta Platforms as \u2060its chief AI \u200cofficer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scale AI said on Thursday it had named former Google Cloud executive Francis DeSouza as chief executive officer, effective August 10, as the AI company looks to expand its data and applications businesses. DeSouza will succeed Jason Droege, who has \u200cserved as \u2060interim CEO since \u2060June last year. Droege will work with deSouza in the coming months to support the transition, Scale said. Founded by Alexandr Wang, Scale provides data that powers frontier AI models and develops AI applications for businesses and governments. Last year, Wang joined Meta Platforms as \u2060its chief AI \u200cofficer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025150,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025129\/revisions\/1025150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}