Snorkel
Programmatic data platform expanding into expert evals and RL environments
Snorkel AI, born from the Stanford AI Lab's Snorkel project, provides programmatic data labeling and an expert data service, and now builds agent evaluations and RL environments for frontier model developers. Its research arm publishes benchmarks including a senior software engineering eval.
Senior SWE-Bench benchmark work
| Website | snorkel.ai/research |
|---|---|
| Domains | Multi-Domain, Coding, Machine Learning, Data Labeling, RLHF |
| Location | San Francisco, Redwood City, New York |
| Team size | 101-250 |
| Founded | 2019 |
| Funding | Series D, $100M at $1.3B valuation (2025) |
| Founders | Alex Ratner, Christopher Ré, Paroma Varma, Henry Ehrenberg |
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