micro1 paid $5.8M to 9 companies in 24 hours for enterprise AI training data
Exp_Mark · x · 2026-09-10
Data company micro1 says it paid out $5.8M to 9 businesses in the past 24 hours for their enterprise data — averaging over $600K per company. The thesis: frontier AI needs training data capturing real-world work complexity, and decades of business decisions and edge cases are key ingredients. 'Realism' is framed as a new, arguably most important, dimension of scale for training data. The company is actively recruiting data partnerships.
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