Surge AI
AI data and post-training company providing expert human feedback, reinforcement-learning environments, model evaluations, and high-skill datasets for frontier AI systems.
Key stats
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- $1.2B
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- Jan 1, 2026
- Products
- 110 employees
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- 1M annotators
Recent releases
2026Surge launches off-the-shelf frontier data catalogProduct launch
Surge launched a catalog of ready-to-license frontier datasets and RL environments covering tool use, professional work, instruction following, and advanced science.
Sep 17, 2025Surge supports frontier labs including Google, Meta, Microsoft, Anthropic and MistralPartnership
Surge was reported as a training-data and post-training provider to major technology companies and frontier AI laboratories.
Sep 17, 2025Surge estimated at $24 billionValuation
Forbes estimated Surge AI's value at approximately $24 billion based on its revenue, profitability, and founder ownership; this was not a priced financing.
Sep 17, 2025Surge contributor network reaches approximately one million annotatorsUser count
Surge was reported to work with approximately one million annotators across its distributed data workforce.
Sep 17, 2025Surge workforce reaches approximately 110 employeesEmployee count
Surge was reported to have approximately 110 direct employees, alongside a much larger contributor network.
Sep 17, 2025Surge reports $1.2 billion of 2024 revenueRevenue disclosure
Forbes reported that Surge generated approximately $1.2 billion in revenue during 2024 and had been profitable from nearly the beginning.
Jun 19, 2025Surge remains bootstrapped without outside fundingNews
Surge was reported to have grown into a major AI data provider without taking external venture funding.
2022Surge expands into RLHF and frontier-model post-trainingFeature update
Surge expanded its expert data platform to reinforcement learning from human feedback, preference data, and advanced language-model post-training.
Upcoming
Jul 1, 2025Surge seeks up to $1 billion in outside capitalRumoredFunding round
Surge was reported to be seeking up to $1 billion in primary and secondary capital at a valuation above $15 billion; no round had closed.
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Models
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Platforms & products
| Name | Type | Category | Launched | Status |
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| Surge Off-the-Shelf Frontier Data | Product | — | Jan 2026 | active |
| Surge AI Platform | Platform | AI Data Platform | Jan 2020 | active |
| Surge Expert Data | Product | — | — | active |
| Surge Model Evaluations | Product | — | — | active |
| Surge RL Environments | Product | — | — | active |
| Surge RLHF and Post-Training | Product | — | — | active |
Sources
- Jan 1, 2026 · Surge launches off-the-shelf frontier data catalogSurge AI
- Sep 17, 2025 · Surge supports frontier labs including Google, Meta, Microsoft, Anthropic and MistralForbes
- Sep 17, 2025 · Surge estimated at $24 billionForbes
- Sep 17, 2025 · Surge contributor network reaches approximately one million annotatorsContrary Research
- Sep 17, 2025 · Surge workforce reaches approximately 110 employeesContrary Research
- Sep 17, 2025 · Surge reports $1.2 billion of 2024 revenueForbes
- Jul 1, 2025 · Surge seeks up to $1 billion in outside capitalReuters
- Jun 19, 2025 · Surge remains bootstrapped without outside fundingContrary Research
- Jan 1, 2022 · Surge expands into RLHF and frontier-model post-trainingSurge AI
- Jan 1, 2020 · Surge AI launches training-data platformSurge AI
* Market cap / valuation. Company values are AI-attributed: the latest market cap or valuation × the share attributed to AI (100% for pure AI companies). Methodology