Training Data AI News & Updates
Robotics Startup XDOF Raises $70 Million to Tackle AI's Physical Training Data Bottleneck
Startup XDOF has emerged from stealth with $70 million in funding to build data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for physical AI. By partnering with UC Berkeley to release the massive 'ABC' robotics da...
Startup Leverages Gig Workers to Solve the Robotics Training Data Bottleneck
Silicon Valley startup Human Archive raised $8.2 million to collect first-person video and sensory data from gig workers in India to train physical AI models. By equipping workers with cameras and tactile sensors, the co...
Wirestock Raises $23M to Supply Multi-Modal Creative Data to AI Foundation Model Makers
Wirestock, a platform that originally helped photographers sell stock photos, has pivoted to become a data provider for AI labs, raising $23 million in Series A funding. The company now supplies images, videos, design as...
Meta Harvests Employee Keystroke Data to Train AI Models
Meta plans to use data from its employees' mouse movements and keystrokes as training data for its AI models, according to a Reuters report. This practice highlights the AI industry's growing need for new training data s...
Runway Expands AI World Models from Creative Tools to Robotics Training Simulations
Runway, known for its video and photo generation AI models, is expanding into robotics and self-driving car industries after receiving inbound interest from companies seeking to use their world models for training simula...
Trump Dismisses Copyright Office Director Following AI Training Report
President Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Register of Copyrights, shortly after the Copyright Office released a report on AI training with copyrighted content. Representative Morelle linked the firing to Perlmutter's r...
OpenAI Reports Government Discussions About DeepSeek Training Investigation
OpenAI has informed government officials about its investigation into Chinese AI firm DeepSeek, which it claims trained models using improperly obtained data from OpenAI's API. During a Bloomberg TV interview, OpenAI's c...