Uber Expands AI Data Platform to Power Next-Gen Enterprise and AI Lab Needs
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) today announced a major expansion of its AI data services business, Uber AI Solutions, making its technology platform available to support AI labs and enterprises around the world. The new offerings include customized data solutions for building smarter AI models and agents, global digital task networks, and tools to help companies build and test AI models more efficiently.
Over the past decade, Uber has developed deep expertise in collecting, labeling, testing, and localizing data for its own global operations, including optimizing the search of places or menu items, training self-driving car systems, building Gen AI agents for customer support, and translating content in more than 100 languages. Now that same expertise is being made available to other businesses through Uber AI Solutions, the company's dedicated team focused on powering the next generation of artificial intelligence.
'We're bringing together Uber's platform, people, and AI systems to help other organizations build smarter AI more quickly,' said Megha Yethadka, GM and Head of Uber AI Solutions. 'With today's updates, we're scaling our platform globally to meet the growing demand for reliable, real-world AI data.'
What's New
Global digital task platform
Uber AI Solutions is now available in 30 countries with a platform that connects enterprises to global talent, including experts in coding, finance, law, science, and linguistics. These tasks include annotation, translation, and editing for multi-lingual and multi-modal content. Powered by Uber's foundational platforms for identity, verification, payments and more, this expands Uber's gig work model into the world of AI.
A new data foundry
A new service that provides ready-to-use and custom-collected datasets—including audio, video, image, and text—to train large AI models. Built with data collected by individuals around the world using Uber technology, the data foundry supports use cases on generative AI, mapping, speech recognition, and others, with built-in privacy and compliance.
Agentic AI support
Uber AI Solutions is offering the tools and data to help train smart AI agents, including realistic task flows, high-quality annotations, simulations and multilingual support, helping AI agents understand and navigate real-world business processes.
Shared infrastructure for AI builders
Uber is making its internal platforms available to enterprise clients. These are the same platforms Uber uses to manage large-scale annotation projects and validate AI outputs, and includes AI-powered smart onboarding, quality checks, smart task decomposition and routing, and feedback loops to ensure accuracy and efficiency.
Building the human intelligence layer for AI
With these advancements, Uber AI Solutions is poised to become the human intelligence layer for AI development worldwide—combining software, operational expertise, and its massive global scale.
Looking ahead, Uber is building an AI-powered interface that will allow clients to simply describe their data needs in plain language, letting the platform handle setup, task assignment, workflow optimization, and quality management for scalable AI training.
About Uber
Uber's mission is to create opportunity through movement. We started in 2010 to solve a simple problem: how do you get access to a ride at the touch of a button? More than 61 billion trips later, we're building products to get people closer to where they want to be. By changing how people, food, and things move through cities, Uber is a platform that opens up the world to new possibilities.
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