“The $1 billion startup has also moved beyond coding and is providing specialized data from a wide array of industries.”
Turing pitched OpenAI on software contractors in 2022 and OpenAI asked for coding data instead. Now it hires hundreds of experts per client, from neuroscience PhDs to sales staff, to write question and answer chains for models to learn from. The “intelligence” in the frontier model is contract labour typed into a spreadsheet. Quora’s CEO sits on OpenAI’s board and invests in Turing, so he sits on both sides of the deal.