Mighty AI
Seattle-based AI training data platform for autonomous vehicles; acquired by Uber ATG in June 2019.
Mighty AI was a Seattle, Washington-based technology company founded in 2014 that developed a crowd-powered platform for generating and annotating training data for computer vision and autonomous vehicle AI systems. The platform enabled rapid labeling of images and sensor data to train machine learning models that detect and classify objects including vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, and road signs. Mighty AI served autonomous vehicle developers requiring large volumes of high-quality labeled data at scale.
In June 2019, Uber acquired Mighty AI to accelerate its self-driving vehicle program within Uber ATG (Advanced Technologies Group). Approximately 40 Mighty AI employees joined Uber's Seattle engineering operations. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
The company is no longer operating independently.
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