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THE AI DATA INDEX · VOL. 01

Good models start
with the right data.

A field guide to the companies supplying AI’s raw material.
From human feedback to the physical world. Find your next data partner.

129 providers9 categoriesOpen access. Always.

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AfterQuery

Expert-written SFT data, evaluation rubrics, agent environments and computer-use trajectories for frontier models.

LLM & human feedback
TextCode
Managed service
Website

AIMLEAP

Managed web scraping, data collection and data engineering services.

Web & text data
TextTabular
Managed service
Website

Alegion

Data labeling workflows and managed annotation for machine learning.

Annotation & collection
ImageVideoText
Platform + services
Website

Anolytics

Data annotation and collection across text, speech and computer vision.

Annotation & collection
TextImageVideoAudio
Managed service
Website

Anyverse

Synthetic sensor datasets for perception and autonomous systems.

Synthetic data
ImageVideo3D
Platform
Website

Appen

Global human-data programs spanning alignment, speech, multimodal and physical AI.

LLM & human feedback
TextAudioImageVideoRobotics
Managed service
Website

Awign

Distributed workforce for egocentric video capture and AI data annotation.

Robotics & egocentric
VideoImageTextRobotics
Managed service
Website

BasicAI

Multimodal annotation software and managed training-data services.

Annotation & collection
ImageVideo3D
Platform + services
Website

Centaur.ai

Expert labeling and human-AI aggregation for healthcare and other specialized training datasets.

Specialist datasets
ImageVideoAudioText
Managed service
Website

Centific

Multimodal data creation, curation and evaluation for enterprise AI.

Annotation & collection
TextAudioImageVideo
Platform + services
Website

Claru

Curated training data for physical AI, including egocentric video.

Robotics & egocentric
VideoRobotics
Datasets + services
Website

CloudFactory

Managed human-in-the-loop operations and data annotation for AI teams.

Annotation & collection
ImageVideoText
Managed service
Website

Cogito Tech

Human data annotation and evaluation for AI development.

Annotation & collection
TextImageVideoAudio
Managed service
Website

Dappier

Publisher content monetization and AI answer experiences for publishers and advertisers.

Data marketplaces
Text
Platform
Website

Databento

Historical and live market data delivered through unified APIs.

Specialist datasets
TabularTime series
Data API
Website

DataForce

Global collection, annotation and linguistic data services from TransPerfect.

Annotation & collection
AudioTextImageVideo
Datasets + services
Website

Dataloop

Data pipelines, annotation and orchestration for AI development.

Annotation & collection
TextImageVideoAudio
Platform
Website

Datasaur

Text and audio labeling software for NLP and language-model development.

Annotation & collection
TextAudio
Platform
Website

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A NOTE ON THE INDEX

A starting point for better sourcing.

This is a curated directory of data suppliers, marketplaces and collection tools, published by Ocal. Each listing links to its source. Inclusion isn’t an endorsement or a claim that a vendor sells every dataset off the shelf. Availability and usage rights depend on the provider and agreement.

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