Over 1,000 Companies Sign Up to Sell Data for Model Training in Weeks
Exp_Mark · x · 2026-08-24
More than 1,000 companies have signed up in recent weeks to get paid for their anonymized data to train AI models, with over $2M in referral payouts distributed. This signals the emergence of a massive Total Addressable Market (TAM) opportunity for the economy almost overnight as data value is redefined.
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