Welcoming Upcraft to the Labelbox team

Labelbox has acquired Upcraft, a company specializing in AI-powered sales automation, to enhance its AI model training capabilities by integrating AI agents into its operations. The acquisition aims to strengthen Alignerr, Labelbox's network of over one million domain experts, by automating complex workflows and improving how the network recruits and engages experts to generate high-quality training data. Upcraft, founded in 2021, brings its expertise in automating sophisticated sales workflows, which will now be leveraged to support AI model development. Greg Caplan, Upcraft's CEO, expressed excitement about joining Labelbox to contribute to their vision of advancing superintelligence and making AI more accessible. Labelbox CEO Manu Sharma emphasized the importance of connecting elite domain experts with development teams to secure high-quality, expert-driven training data, which is crucial as AI labs invest heavily in advancing AI technologies. The integration of Upcraft's capabilities is expected to transform the growth and operation of the Alignerr network, ultimately enhancing the quality and scalability of AI models.