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Listed as a data vendor in a lopsided market. A few frontier labs buy from many startups and can make them compete on price.
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Scale AI
A data labeling and AI training data provider for frontier labs.
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Along with Surge, it pioneered crowdsourced low-skill data work, which labs found less effective than a smaller, higher-caliber expert group. Crowdsourcing firms paid around $30 an hour.
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