AI dubbing company Papercup co-founder and CEO, Jesse Shemen, announced via a post on LinkedIn dated May 15, 2025, that “a large portion of the Papercup team is joining Scale AI, a company I’ve long admired for shaping the future of AI across both public and enterprise sectors.” While both Shemen and AI data annotation giant Scale AI are seemingly keeping details of their merger under wraps, Shemen also said in his post that “It is a bittersweet moment. While it’s difficult to see Papercup take a different path than I had imagined, I’m deeply proud of what we accomplished.” He is joining Scale himself, but it is not known what his role will be. For its part, Scale AI published an announcement on the same date as Shemen’s post, welcoming the Papercup team, who “brings deep experience in audio ML, localization workflows, and production-grade infrastructure.” Papercup launched in December 2017 with Shemen and Jiameng Gao as CTO. The company set out to use machine learning to create a video AI dubbing platform, and by December 2020, it had raised USD 10.87m, a pre-series round led by LocalGlobe and Sands Capital Ventures, according to a press statement.

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