Snorkel AI raises $350M after turning its software into a data service

The Stanford spinout says its data-service pivot lifted annualized revenue run-rate from $20M to $350M in a year.

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Primary source: Reuters

Why it matters

Snorkel's valuation jump shows investors moving upstream from AI applications into the expert datasets, evaluations and simulated environments required to train increasingly capable agents.

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Snorkel AI has raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, rewarding co-founder and CEO Alex Ratner (@ajratner) for a sharp turn from selling data-labeling software to delivering the finished datasets and training environments that frontier AI labs need.…

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