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Surge AI

Surge AI is an AI training data company that provides high-quality human feedback and data labeling services for machine learning teams. Unlike crowdsourcing platforms, Surge differentiates itself by recruiting expert contributors — including Supreme Court litigators, McKinsey principals, and platinum recording artists — to produce premium training data. The company focuses on RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) and complex annotation tasks that require specialized domain knowledge.

Company Info

Founded
2020
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founders
Edwin Chen
Employees
50-100
Website
https://www.surgehq.ai
Status
active

Funding

$7.5M total

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