Mercor competitor Deccan AI raises $25M, sources experts from India

Deccan AI concentrates its workforce in India to manage quality in a fast-growing but fragmented AI training market.

Remotasks employs you to train AI. But the pay is peanuts and in the end you’re expendable.

Freelancers who sign up with the site complain about doing hours of training only to find an empty work queue.

Mistral AI launches Forge to help companies build proprietary AI models, challenging cloud giants

Mistral AI launches Forge, an enterprise AI training platform that lets companies build custom models on proprietary data and ...
TMCnet

Shutterstock Announces Major Expansion of Licensed Training Datasets to Power the Next Generation of Generative AI

"Generative AI models are not static; they must be continuously trained and refined to remain relevant, competitive, and ...
CNBC

34-year-old entrepreneur earns $200 an hour from side gig training AI models: 'Intellectual curiosity drew me in'

Utkarsh Amitabh says he definitely wasn't in the market for a new job in January 2025, when data labeling startup micro1 approached him about joining its network of human experts who help companies ...
The Next Web

Universal Robots and Scale AI launch the UR AI Trainer

Universal Robots and Scale AI launch the UR AI Trainer at GTC 2026, a leader-follower system that captures force and visual ...
MIT Technology Review

The Pentagon is planning for AI companies to train on classified data, defense official says

The generative AI models used in classified environments can answer questions but don't currently learn from the data they ...
CNET on MSN

DoorDash's New Tasks App Will Pay You to Train AI

DoorDash's New Tasks App Will Pay You to Train AI ...