Deep Seek And Destroy - Part Five - Scale AI And AI Drone Warfare

The AI Warfare Company You Don't Know Yet, And Its Youngest Billionaire

You probably don’t know the youngest American ever to become a Billionaire or his company, Scale AI. But his name is Alexsandr Wang, and Scale AI does the AI training and data labeling for drone surveillance imagery for the Department of Defense and NATO for the Ukraine War.

Article synopsis

Scale AI, founded by 24-year-old Alexandr Wang, labels drone-surveillance imagery for the Pentagon and NATO and has become indispensable in Ukraine’s battlefield AI. Reporter George Webb notes that on 7 January—the day the Pacific Palisades blaze erupted—he had already flagged Scale AI’s possible role in analyzing fire-zone drone feeds. Webb frames the company as the latest node in a shadow network linking Silicon Valley to covert warfare programs.

Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, is portrayed as Wang’s patron: after employee protests ended Google’s work on Project MAVEN, Schmidt funneled the contract first to Scale AI and Anduril. Webb ties this lineage to his late collaborator Jenny Moore’s warnings about a domestic drone program called MAVNI, later rebranded MAVEN under Defense Secretary James Mattis. Congressional testimony in 2023 shows Scale AI lobbying for a “new pathfinder” to keep military AI development alive.

Suspicion deepens when Webb’s team links Chinese start-up Deep Seek Labs—and its World Economic Forum ally Nicholas Berggruen—to a parallel “fire-prediction” exercise in Los Angeles. Scale AI had just finished a New Year’s Day pilot called FireAId near the Saint Ynez Reservoir; high winds foiled that burn, but the 7 January inferno achieved the terabyte-scale imagery both firms crave. Webb argues that fire units drew containment lines instead of fighting flames, mirroring a live drill rather than an emergency response.

Webb was in Santa Monica investigating the unsolved murder of AI whistle-blower Suchir Balaji—last seen hiking with Scale AI insiders—when the winds forced residents like filmmaker Peter Duke to evacuate. He believes certain WEF-linked figures in Santa Monica had advance knowledge of the “live exercise,” just as Antifa riots on nearby Third Street Promenade followed a WEF scenario in 2021. Vowing to pursue every lead, Webb promises forthcoming evidence tying Scale AI, Deep Seek, and elite sponsors to a coordinated, AI-driven controlled burn.

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Key individuals

Alexandr Wang fronts the story as the world’s youngest billionaire, steering Scale AI’s rise from drone-image labeler to Pentagon linchpin; his mentor Eric Schmidt leverages Google’s exit from Project MAVEN to place Wang at the center of military AI. Journalist George Webb narrates events on-scene, while his late partner Jenny Moore had earlier flagged the MAVNI/MAVEN domestic-drone danger. Supporting players include Defense Secretary James Mattis, who sought tech subcontractors; inventor-entrepreneur Palmer Luckey of Anduril; murdered whistle-blower Suchir Balaji; and WEF power broker Nicholas Berggruen, alleged land-grab beneficiary of the blaze.

Principal entities and programs

Scale AI supplies U.S. and NATO forces with computer-vision data, whereas Chinese rival Deep Seek Labs—headed by Liang Wenfeng—runs a simultaneous “fire study” in L.A. and partners with the Berggruen Institute. Projects MAVNI and MAVEN embody the Pentagon’s effort to weaponize AI, now pushed forward by Schmidt’s Defense Innovation Board and NSCAI, while FireAId serves as Scale AI’s wildfire-imaging pilot. Additional nodes in the web include Anduril’s drone hardware, World Economic Forum live-exercise templates, True Car offices as alleged meeting hubs, and the Department of Defense itself, whose pathfinder funding knits these corporate and governmental actors into a single AI-driven warfare ecosystem.

Introduction

On January 7th, the day of the Pacific Palisades fire, I hinted at Scale AI’s involvement in analyzing drone imagery related to the fire, similar to how Scale AI analyzed drone imagery in the Ukraine War.

My former boss at Sun Microsystems, Eric Schmidt, who went on to run Google, is the key sponsor of Alexsandr Wang, subcontracting Google’s sensitive warfare AI work out to Scale AI.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/google-letter-ceo-pentagon-project.html

My former and then deceased research partner, Jenny Moore, AKA Task Force, warned of an AI drone program to be used against the people of the United States called MAVNI - Military Assets Vitally Needed In Case of Insurrection.

https://myattorneyusa.com/immigration-news/defense-secretary-mattis-indicates-that-dod-is-looking-for-ways-to-save-mavni/

General Mattis went to Silicon Valley to subcontract the AI and drone pieces of the program in 2018 to Eric Schmidt at Google with a slightly renamed program called MAVEN.

https://www.wesa.fm/science-health-tech/2019-09-03/cmu-quietly-hosts-project-maven-offshoot-through-army-ai-task-force

Eric Schmidt subbed out MAVEN to Scale AI and Palmer Lucky’s Anduril for drones when Google employees objected to using AI for warfare after 2018.

Scale AI’s testified in 2023 that DoD need a “new pathfinder project” like Maven to keep the development of warfare AI going.

Eric Schmidt, through the Defense Innovation Board (DIB) and later the NSCAI committee at National Security at the Biden White House, subbed out MAVEN to Scale AI.

This tweet was in the afternoon before we knew the Palisades Fire would be catastrophic. I am not implying here that Alexsandr Wang had any foreknowledge of the Palisades Fire, but I am saying that individuals in Santa Monica who are closely associated with the World Economic Forum did have that foreknowledge.

Our researchers quickly homed in on the Chinese partner in the controlled burn of the Pacific Palisades, Deep Seek Labs. More importantly, we identified Deep Seek Labs’ modus operandi with the Berggruen Institute, which uses fire for ethnic cleansing worldwide. Scale AI is also a strategic partner of the World Economic Forum.

Scale AI had just finished a Fire AI live exercise pilot in Los Angeles on January 1st called FireAId. A small fire broke out on New Year’s Eve near the St. Ynez Reservoir, which may have been intended to be the catastrophic version of the event, but Santa Ana winds did not cooperate with the arson.

We would not be so lucky on January 7th. I was in Santa Monica with both Peter Duke and Jessica Duke that night of the high winds, and the only choice they had was to evacuate and go back the next day to see the results of the fire.

Scale AI was a key strategic partner in reading drone and military vehicle imagery of the Department of Defense in the Ukraine War.

In my estimation, this was the critical time when the controlled burning occurred, even though one elderly man with a garden hose could save his home with only swimming pool water and a small pump. My visit back to the Pacific Palisades neighborhood at first light the following day was blocked by Police.

I expressed suspicions that Deep Seek and Scale AI were running a live exercise in California during my January 3rd talk in Silicon Valley, but I did not know at that time that both Deep Seek Labs and Scale AI were running a live fire exercise in Pacific Palisades.

I had reason to believe and expected a “live exercise” in Santa Monica, one city to the South of Pacific Palisades. I was preparing for a more Antifa-like attack on the 3rd Street Promenade near True Car’s old headquarters, which had occurred previously in Santa Monica in 2021.

World Economic Forum live exercises can take the form of Antifa riots breaking every window on the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica (like they did in 2021) or in the form of the controlled burn of the Pacific Palisades. I missed by one village in my anticipation of WEF shenanigans.

I went to Santa Monica on January 6th before the fire because I believe Suchir Balaji had meetings there regarding a new start-up in neurological image processing, and other members of his party include key Scale AI individuals who were experts in computer vision and extensive image processing in general including battlefield image processing.

I am not saying Suchir Balaji or any of the members of the Catalina hiking party of January 18th to the 22nd knew of the forthcoming live fire exercise, but other individuals in Santa Monica who they may have met with did. Here is an excerpt from my Substack at the time.

I will continue to look into the Scale AI and Deep Seek Lab AI live fire exercises in Pacific Palisades during the catastrophic fires. Tucker Carlson stopped short of this topic with the mother of the murdered Suchir Balaji. I won’t.