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.

Google had reportedly planned to pay Scale AI around $200 million this year for training data essential for developing Gemini, its answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Google, the largest client of data‐labeling firm Scale AI, is planning to end its contract, according to Reuters. This shakeup came after Meta announced it would acquire a 49% stake in the startup. Google planned to spend about $200 million on Scale this year for human-labeled training data,