Scale AI Signs Deal for Long-Term Doha Office at The Pearl

A bigger office for a growing Doha team

Scale AI said it signed the agreement with UDC to expand in Qatar and settle at The Pearl, a waterfront community in Doha. The company describes the expanded office as nearly 2,000 square meters, intended to give its growing team more space.

The company says its Doha team has grown to nearly 100 employees since the partnership with Qatar was announced in 2025. Close to 50% of them are technical engineers, according to Scale. The company describes UDC's development as a place that brings together work and living space, along with hospitality, dining, retail and leisure amenities. For a business that depends on people collaborating over the long term, Scale says, that quality of place matters.

Built on a five-year partnership

The move follows a five-year partnership between Scale, the State of Qatar and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), which was announced at Web Summit Qatar 2025. Scale ties its work to Qatar's Digital Agenda 2030, which, in the company's words, brings together investment in digital infrastructure, government services, innovation and skills.

Scale says its Doha team currently works with the State of Qatar across healthcare, justice, education and higher education, tourism and broader government. The company has also published a series on Qatar's national AI infrastructure, covering topics from legislative drafting to national recruitment.

Data, evaluations and training

Scale describes its core business as providing the high-quality data that powers the world's leading AI models. Through Scale Labs, it develops benchmarks and evaluations used to measure how advanced models perform. One example it cites is Humanity's Last Exam, built with the Center for AI Safety.

The company also says it has partnered with government AI evaluation bodies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Korea and Singapore to develop benchmarks and expand testing capacity. In Qatar, it says it applies the same rigor, focusing on evaluating performance, supporting human oversight and developing the skills to operate and improve systems over time.

On the skills side, the ALIF program was launched by MCIT in collaboration with Scale and is delivered through the Qatar Digital Academy. It offers hands-on AI training for technical and non-technical government employees. Scale says nearly 6,000 government employees have built AI literacy, practical skills and confidence through the program.

What it means

The office agreement signals that Scale intends to keep a permanent, sizable team in Qatar rather than operate on a short-term basis. The company states that its confidence in Qatar's long-term future is "unwavering" and that it intends to contribute for years to come through sustained partnership, engineering work and investment in people.

The source does not give financial terms, a move-in date or hiring targets. What it does show is a team that has expanded to nearly 100 people in about a year, with a stated focus on government use of AI, model evaluation and workforce training.