Scale AI hires former Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, replacing interim CEO Jason Droege, who took over last year after Alexandr Wang left for Meta (Madison Mills/Axios)

<a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/07/30/scale-ai-google-cloud-coo-francis-desouza"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260730/i28.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260730/p28#a260730p28" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Madison Mills / <a href="https://www.axios.com/">Axios</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/07/30/scale-ai-google-cloud-coo-francis-desouza">Scale AI hires former Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, replacing interim CEO Jason Droege, who took over last year after Alexandr Wang left for Meta</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Scale AI has hired former Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, year after Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang left the AI infrastructure company for Meta.</p>