Surge in Demand for AI Training Data: Micro1 Revenue Reaches $5 Billion in 8 Months
Rising demand for AI training data has driven rapid growth for annotation startups. Micro1, founded four years ago, increased its annualized revenue from $1 billion to $5 billion in the past 8 months, with net income of approximately $1.5 to $2 billion. Although its scale is still smaller than Mercor and Handshake (annualized total revenue of $2 billion and $1 billion respectively), the growth highlights that the AI training data market is forming a sufficiently large scale.