Besimple AI
Human-in-the-loop annotation and evals, with a voice data focus
Besimple AI (YC) builds AI-assisted data annotation and evaluation tooling (auto-generated guidelines, visualizers, and AI evaluators) with a specialization in voice data for AI labs.
Investors include Y Combinator, Emmett Shear, and Kyle Vogt
| Website | besimple.ai |
|---|---|
| Domains | Data Labeling, Voice, RLHF |
| Location | San Francisco |
| Team size | 1-10 |
| Funding | ~$3.5M total |
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