As reported by Bloomberg, the platform recruits skilled workers in India, the US, Canada, Poland, and Nicaragua to perform specialized tasks like image annotation, text labeling, and AI model evaluation.
Contractors will be paid monthly based on completed tasks, with earnings varying by project complexity.
Current clients include Aurora Innovation, a self-driving truck software company, and Niantic, the developer behind Pokémon Go. Uber leverages its extensive experience managing gig workers to build this new service, which competes with platforms like Scale AI — a startup valued at US$14 billion.
Tasks range from classifying road objects for autonomous vehicles to evaluating AI chatbot responses and adapting products for local markets. One India-based software engineer reported being paid 200 rupees (US$2.37) to compare and rate AI-generated coding solutions.
An Uber spokesperson stated the initiative builds on the company’s decade of experience managing large-scale annotation tasks for its own platforms, including rideshare, food delivery, and freight services.
Uber’s entry into AI data services offers companies a flexible, global workforce for complex machine learning and AI development tasks, potentially disrupting the existing outsourced AI labor market.