AI training data provider Human Archive raises $8.2M
Artificial intelligence training data provider Human Archive Inc. today announced that it has raised $8.2 million in funding.
Wing Venture Capital, NVP Capital, Y Combinator headlined the consortium that provided the capital. The funds were joined by employees at Nvidia Corp., OpenAI Group PBC, Google LLC and other major players in the AI market.
AI models are usually trained on data that is similar to the information they will process in production. A robotic arm’s neural network, for example, might be shown clips in which other robotic arms assemble car parts. Sourcing such data for humanoid robots is difficult because there is a limited number of such machines on the market.
San Francisco-based Human Archive launched earlier this year to tackle the challenge. According to TechCrunch, the startup sources training data by partnering with gig economy companies that operate food delivery and household service platforms. Workers on such platforms receive devices that they can use to record how they perform day-to-day tasks. Human Archive organizes that footage, adds labels and sells it to AI developers.
