This startup is creating an AI training data marketplace to help creators and companies buy and sell licensed content

What’s the value of data used in training AI? That’s an existential question one new startup wants to help answer.

Trainspot is launching an AI data marketplace to help content creators monetize their intellectual property for AI training while giving developers and businesses a way to source licensed training data. The San Francisco-based company, which emerged from stealth mode yesterday, aims to attract a range of creators to sell books, images, video and code from writers, filmmakers and developers.

Companies curious about using AI are also cautious about gray areas like the legality, reliability and explainability of AI outputs. Trainspot’s goal is to help with all three for training foundation models, fine-tuning and for improving accuracy with techniques like retrieval augmented generation (RAG).

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