OpenAI is phasing out the work it does with data-labeling startup Scale AI, cutting ties with the company days after Meta Platforms Inc. invested billions of dollars in it and hired its founder. Scale accounted for a small fraction of OpenAI’s overall data needs,

Scale co-founder and CEO Alexandr Wang will lead Meta’s new superintelligence unit.

Scale AI built its business on the labor of gig workers. But those workers likely won't benefit from their new deal with Meta.