The DATA Foundation Launches to Tackle AI’s Multi-Billion Dollar Training Data Bottleneck
Story has rebranded as The DATA Foundation and launched the DATA Network alongside Trace, a public audit layer for AI training data provenance and licensing. The launch includes a flagship integration with Kled, the world's largest opt-in human data marketplace, registering 1.5 billion user-contributed records. This move addresses the AI industry's multi-billion dollar bottleneck in sourcing high-quality, legally compliant training data, as the supply of scrapable public web data is exhausted. Trace provides immutable receipts for each data contribution, enabling verification of consent, licensing, and provenance. The ecosystem also includes Poseidon's data processing and the contributor app Numo. The foundation's thesis is that proving data origin and ensuring fair compensation is critical for advancing trusted AI. The existing $IP token will migrate to $DATA on a one-to-one basis.
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