AI Firms Pivot to Domain Experts for High-Quality Training Data
AI companies are rapidly shifting from low-cost data annotators to industry specialists to train advanced models. Scale AI, Turing, and Toloka now employ experts in fields like biology and finance to create sophisticated datasets for next-generation AI systems.
The strategic MOVE follows growing recognition of data quality's importance in AI development. "The industry is finally accepting data's critical role in training," says Toloka CEO Olga Megorskaya. This pivot has attracted significant investor interest, with Scale AI reaching a $29 billion valuation after Meta's $15 billion investment.