@FinanceYF5: 1/If you're looking for the next batch of AI data companies to watch, who should you look at first? Someone compiled an industry poll focused on startups selling data to AI labs, excluding large companies like Mercor, Surge, Handshake, and Turing. A total of 64 made the list.

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This is an article about an industry poll focusing on startups that sell data to AI labs, excluding some large companies, with a total of 64 companies making the list.

1/If you're looking for the next batch of AI data companies to watch, who should you look at first? Someone compiled an industry poll focused on startups selling data to AI labs, excluding large companies like Mercor, Surge, Handshake, and Turing. A total of 64 made the list👇 https://t.co/A5bbSeX006
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1/If you’re looking for the next batch of noteworthy AI data companies, who should you start with?

Someone has compiled an industry poll, focusing on startups that 【sell data to AI labs】, and excluded large companies like Mercor, Surge, Handshake, Turing, etc.

In the end, a total of 64 companies made the list 👇 https://t.co/A5bbSeX006

2/ The top five are clearly leading:

Mechanize: 22 votes Proximal: 12 votes Fleet: 11 votes AfterQuery: 9 votes Datacurve: 8 votes

Mechanize received nearly twice as many votes as the second-place company, making it the most attention-grabbing company on this list.

3/ The second tier:

Bespoke Labs, Preference Model: 5 votes each Abundant: 4 votes Andon Labs, Latch, microagi, Prime Intellect, Snorkel, XDOF: 3 votes each

The AI data market is not just about annotation anymore; it’s expanding into evaluations, preference data, agent training, and robotics data.

4/ Companies with 2 votes each:

Build, Datology, Design Arena, dmodel, Good Start Labs, hillclimb, HUD, Inheritance, Mecka, Sieve, Taste Labs, Trajectory, Vmax.

These companies might not be large yet, but they are starting to come into the industry’s view.

5/ Companies with 1 vote each (first half):

Adamo, Applied Compute, Arcverex, Arena, Arx Labs, Ascent, Centaur AI, Chakra, ChartR, David AI, Enable Medicine, Engram, General Reasoning, Human Archive, Hume AI, Idler, micro1, Nascent, Nlink, Olam Labs, Originator, Pantograph, Parsewave

6/ The remaining companies with 1 vote each:

Phinity Labs, Plato, Polymath Labs, Precigenetics, Prolific, Quesma, Standard Data, Standard Machines, Theta Software, Thoughtful, Toloka, Trajectory Labs, Valen, Vals AI.

Helps discover companies that haven’t yet entered the mainstream view

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