Vikram Aditya on X: "The goldmine business of selling data to frontier labs" / X
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I’ve spoken to 3 founders of different companies playing this game over last 10 days. Their companies sell training data to frontier AI labs, and all of them talk the way people talk when the ground is moving under them. It goes something like this. We started in April. First quarter we closed $30M in orders. There are open purchase orders sitting on my desk for $100M . By December we should land somewhere north of $150M $150M. None of it is recurring but all of it is growing. This month might end up in $20M for us. We’re less than 12 people, and maybe some interns. Every conversation I…
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