GV is among the investors in Snorkel, which has emerged from stealth developing modelling technology for machine learning.

US-based machine learning technology developer Snorkel AI publicly launched yesterday with $15m from investors including GV, an early-stage investment arm of internet and technology group Alphabet.

The round was also backed by venture capital firm Greylock Partners and In-Q-Tel, the strategic investment affiliate of the US intelligence community, as well as undisclosed additional investors.

Snorkel’s software automatically labels large datasets for training artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, a task that can take months to perform manually.

Data labelling is required as…