Chris's AI data startups
I asked people which AI data startups they think are most interesting. The focus was on startups that sell data to labs, excluding the massive ones (Mercor, Surge, Handshake, Turing).
Proximal is a research lab for coding data. We build the data engine behind the next generation of autonomous coding agents.
Research and data infrastructure for training, evaluating, and advancing frontier AI models on long-horizon expert work.
Bespoke Labs optimizes AI agents using cutting-edge research on data curation and evolutionary algorithms.
Preference Model is building the next generation of training data to power the future of AI.
microagi is a data research lab working on end-to-end physical AGI, with a focus on reliable real-world deployments.
Automatically curate model training data to train faster, improve performance, and reduce costs.
Push the frontier of your model
Vmax is automating reinforcement learning by transforming proprietary data and evaluations into new environments.
Powering Computer Use
The data hyperscaler for physical AI.
Prolific helps AI developers, researchers, and organizations access high-quality human data.
A research lab building high-performance tools and AI for chip design.
Simulations that measure and improve your models' key capabilities: Long-horizon reasoning, tool use, enterprise functionality, and more.
Frontier models you own.
Reinforcement learning environments for chip design, built by hardware engineers. Train AI models on RTL, testbenches, and debugging.
Record gameplay highlights automatically. Zero performance impact, no ads, no bloat. Supports League of Legends, Valorant, CS2, and 10,000+
David AI is an audio data research company trusted by top AI labs to develop proprietary audio datasets that power their models.
Leverage Enable's AI-powered biological search to answer your most critical scientific questions.
A London research lab building the infrastructure for AI that reasons, plans, and acts together over long horizons.
Building AI with emotional intelligence to create technology that truly understands humanity.
A photonic-AI platform for real-time chemical movies of living cells.
Connect Claude Code, Codex and Cursor session costs to engineering work and outcomes. Find wasted tokens, repeated failures and practices to
Trajectory Labs, PBC provides AI safety evaluations, red teaming, and RL environments to frontier labs.
Valen partners with life sciences organizations to validate AI-discovered therapeutics through rigorous preclinical testing.
























































