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Surge AI Surpassed $1B in Revenue With Under 100 Employees
“Yeah, so we hit over a billion of revenue last year with under a hundred people.”
Edwin Chen Dec 7, 2025 ▶ 5:40 The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
Opinion
Chen: Public AI Benchmarks Are Unreliable and Often Contain Wrong Answers
“I don't trust the benchmarks at all. And I think that's for two reasons. So one is, I think a lot of people don't realize, even researchers within the community, they don't realize that the benchmarks themselves are often honestly just wrong. Like they have wr…”
Edwin Chen Dec 7, 2025 ▶ 18:01 The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
Disclosure
Surge AI tracks keystrokes and model gains to evaluate data annotators
“The way it works is we essentially gather thousands of signals about everything that you're doing when you're working on a platform. So we are looking at your keyboard strokes. We are looking how fast you answer things. We are using reviews. We are using code …”
Edwin Chen Dec 7, 2025 ▶ 11:57 The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
Opinion
Chen: Throwing bodies at data labeling fails to create quality AI data
“I think most people don't understand what quality even means in this space. They think you can just throw bodies at a problem and get good data, and that's completely wrong.”
Edwin Chen Dec 7, 2025 ▶ 9:48 The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
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