Micro1, a two-year-old Palo Alto-based startup that recruits human specialists to generate training data for AI models, has reached a $500 million gross annual revenue run rate. The milestone reflects surging demand from major AI labs and corporations for high-quality human-labeled training data.
Elon Musk announced at a SpaceX town hall that the company will train its Grok 4.6 AI model on internal employee work and communications, telling staff they will be "the parents of the AI." The announcement coincided with the launch of Grok 4.6 and drove SpaceX stock up 12% as Musk projected AI revenue will eventually surpass the company's rocket business.
A Financial Times editorial arguing that AI developers should legally license the intellectual property used to train their models, rather than scraping content without consent, and that market-based licensing is preferable to protracted litigation or weakening copyright protections.
The Financial Times agreed to a content licensing deal with OpenAI, allowing ChatGPT real-time access to FT journalism and use of its archive for model training, with the FT also becoming a ChatGPT Enterprise customer.
