The Crowdsourced Labeling Era Winds Down — At What Price?
TechRound asks whether tech firms are ready for crowdsourced data labeling to end — a question that doubles as a…
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AI Training Data
OpenAI Hires a Compute Financier as IPO Chatter Builds
Generate Capital's Sven Semmelmann joins OpenAI to run compute capital markets — a hire that says as much about the…
Scale AI Signs MoU With Singapore’s IMDA on AI Evaluation
Scale AI adds a sovereign-government partner to its evaluation business, this time inking a memorandum of understanding with Singapore's infocomm…
Amazon Quietly Shutters Mechanical Turk to New Sign-Ups
Mechanical Turk was the original marketplace for cheap human labor behind AI datasets, and its slow wind-down closes the loop…
A Biological Moat – Bio-AI Firm Bets Patents Can Fence Off the Data Layer
A press release claims a 'bio-native' AI company is moving to patent the data infrastructure underneath its models, not just…
Story Protocol Ditches IP Branding, Bets on AI Training Data as DATA Foundation
Story Protocol's pivot to "DATA Foundation" signals another blockchain-adjacent IP project chasing the hotter market: training-data provenance and licensing rather…
Seekr Taps Enabled Intelligence to Bundle Labeling With Explainable AI
Another vertical-data annotation shop lashes itself to a model vendor rather than selling raw labels into the open market —…
Physical AI’s Labeling Bottleneck Is a Buy Signal for Annotators
Robotics and embodied-AI labs are hitting the same wall LLM builders hit years ago: there isn't enough labeled data, and…
Uber Shakes Up Its AI Annotation Unit, Ousts Top Leaders
Uber has been quietly building a data-labeling arm to sell annotation and RLHF work to frontier labs, positioning its gig…
Uber Shakes Up Its AI Data-Labeling Business With Exec Exits
Uber's data-labeling arm — the annotation shop it's been quietly building to sell human-in-the-loop training data to frontier labs —…