micro1 commits $1bn to buy company data for training AI agents

AI training company micro1 will spend $1bn over the next 12 months buying and licensing operational data from companies. The San Francisco company announced the plan on Friday. Citi and Hercules Capital are providing the capital.

The money goes through micro1’s Company Data Partnerships programme. The company uses de-identified company data to build reinforcement learning environments that reflect real business operations. In them, AI models and agents learn to work through workflows, make decisions and complete complex tasks.

“Real business operations involve incomplete information, competing priorities and exceptions that require judgment,” micro1 said in its announcement.

The company said the $1bn will widen the range of industries and workflows its environments cover. It said the initiative gives businesses a new revenue stream from the operational knowledge they have built over years.

What micro1 pays for

The programme’s pagelists the data micro1 wants. That includes standard operating procedures, knowledge...

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