Surge AI CEO: 2,000 human data points beat 10 million synthetic ones
Edwin Chen · Surge CEO & Co-Founder, Edwin Chen: Scaling to $1BN+ in Revenue with NO Funding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Jul 21, 2025 · at 50:58
Edwin Chen is the CEO of Surge AI, a human data platform for AI companies. He shares feedback from AI labs comparing human-annotated data against synthetic data.
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“A lot of them tell us that even a thousand or a couple of thousand pieces of really high quality human data that we generated for them, it's actually been worth more than ten million pieces of synthetic data.”
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