The AI boom runs on tens of millions of workers nobody has figured out how to pay, Papaya Global wants to fix that.

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AI labs, robotics startups and data operations are hiring wherever the talent is, under every employment model at once, in countries where the rules change monthly. The global-employment industry that grew up on “hire anyone, anywhere” is now racing to become something closer to infrastructure. Papaya Global, one of the largest players, made its case to analysts this month. Here’s what it said, and where the claims still need checking.

Ask an AI lab where its workforce is and you get a map, not an address. Researchers in London and Zurich. Engineers in Tel Aviv and Bangalore. Robotics technicians at sites that did not exist a year ago. And underneath all of it, the people who label the data, review the outputs and keep the models honest, a workforce that market researchers Dataintelo and Market.us estimate at roughly 3 million today and project toward 35 million as LLM...

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