Snorkel AI Raises $350 Million To Build Data Factory for Frontier AI Labs
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Snorkel AI has secured $350 million in funding to develop a data factory that will serve the growing needs of advanced AI systems. This funding round, led by Insight Partners and S32, brings the company's valuation to an impressive $3.5 billion. In the past year, Snorkel AI's value increased from $1.3 billion following a $100 million investment.
The company's growth can be attributed to the launch of Expert Data-as-a-Service in September 2025, which has generated over $350 million in annual revenue. Snorkel AI addresses the evolving needs of AI models by creating more challenging training models and data.
The newly funded data factory employs tens of thousands of human experts in collaboration with thousands of specialized AI agents. The experts design complex scenarios, tasks, and grading rubrics for grading AI performance, while AI handles the quality control process. This partnership between humans and AI allows Snorkel AI to offer better compensation to its experts while maintaining profitability.
The $350 million will be allocated towards expanding the data factory, adding more experts and AI agents, and creating increasingly complex environments for AI to refine its skills. Snorkel AI's clientele includes major AI labs, cloud companies, startups, large enterprises, and government agencies, as they all face the same challenge of improving their models with increasingly sophisticated data.
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