GV and In-Q-Tel joined Greylock Partners in the first announced funding round for Snorkel AI, a machine learning development spinout from Stanford.
Snorkel AI, a US-based machine learning modelling technology spinout of Stanford University, emerged from stealth yesterday with $15m from investors including GV, an early-stage corporate venturing arm of internet and technology group Alphabet.
The round was also backed by In-Q-Tel, the strategic investment affiliate of the US intelligence community, venture capital firm Greylock Partners and undisclosed investors.
Snorkel AI’s platform automatically labels large datasets for training artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, a task that can take months to perform…