Micro1, a startup that provides human expert data for AI training, has seen its founder, Ali Ansari, tell TechCrunch that the company’s annual recurring revenue has soared from $7 million to over $100 million this year. After completing a $35 million Series A funding round, the company’s valuation has reached $500 million, with clients including Microsoft and other Fortune 100 companies. Ansari predicts that, driven by non-AI companies building internal AI agents and robotics companies needing pre-training data, the human data market will grow from $10-15 billion to nearly $100 billion within two years. Although trailing competitors like Mercor and Surge in terms of revenue, Micro1 is expanding its business in the field of reinforcement learning and building robotics datasets.