About this episode
AI has eaten the internet, data labeling is so over, and $30 trillion of human work is on the verge of automation. Jonathan Siddharth, Founder & CEO of Turing, joins Sourcery to break down the power shift in AI training — from commodity data labeling to expert research — positioning Turing apart from AI data providers like Scale AI, Mercor, & Surge.Turing has become a hidden force in the AI race, hitting $300M in ARR in 2024 (~3x YoY), achieving profitability, and raising $111M at a $2.2B valuation in March. That growth cements its position as one of the fastest-growing AGI infrastructure companies. Today, frontier labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, & Amazon rely on Turing for the frontier data that pushes AI forward across the four pillars of superintelligence:• Multimodality• Reasoning• Tool use• CodingWe explore Turing’s expansion into the enterprise, closing the “gap” – where Fortune 500s in finance, insurance, and pharma are racing to build proprietary intelligence on their own data, creating durable moats in the $30T knowledge work economy.PS Jonathan also explains how labs like OpenAI train models:• Pre-training on filtered internet corpora (Common Crawl, GitHub, books, video)• Post-training with supervised fine-tuning (human Q&A datasets)• Reinforcement learning (RLHF + verifiable domains) to align models with human preferences• Model-breaking data from Turing’s 4M+ engineers to close gaps and advance systems like GPT-51. Jonathan Siddharth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonsid/2. Molly O’Shea: ?https://x.com/MollySOShea?3. Sourcery: ?https://x.com/sourceryvc?Brought to you by:• Brex—The modern finance platform, combining the world’s smartest corporate card with integrated expense management, banking, bill pay, & travel.As a Sourcery Listener you get: 75,000 points after spending $3,000 on Brex card(s), white-glove onboarding, $5,000 in AWS credits, $2,500 in OpenAI credits, & access to $180k+ in SaaS discounts. On top of $500 toward Brex travel, $300 in cashback, plus exclusive perks (like billboards..) visit ? https
