(Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc.’s top robotics engineer, who recently defended the company’s warehouse working conditions, left to join the artificial intelligence startup Scale AI Inc.Brad Porter will serve as chief technology officer, Scale plans to announce Monday. Scale makes software to help people train autonomous driving technology and other computer vision systems. The business was valued at more than $1 billion last year, when Scale’s then-22-year-old co-founder raised venture capital.Porter said he was persuaded to leave his position because he was excited about Scale’s technology and the opportunity to work in a startup environment. Earlier in his career, Porter worked …read more
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