“Scoring” becomes a factory: Snorkel AI and the new way to buy training data
When money shifts from model performance to specs and inspection—can printers translate “proofreading” into data-prep BPO?
The generative AI arms race doesn’t end with model architecture. The money moving now is in the production line that mass-produces training and evaluation data with clear specifications and verifiable quality. Snorkel AI’s fundraising and cloud partnerships suggest that line is shifting from bespoke “projects” to operational components you can simply procure.
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Snorkel AI raised $35 million in a Series B in 2021. It later raised $85 million in a Series C and, according to the company, reached a $1 billion valuation.
More striking than the dollars is how consistently Snorkel has kept its center of gravity on “data-centric AI.” The company has pushed the idea of “programmatic labeling”—creating labels through rules and code rather than treating labeling as pure manual labor.…
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