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Surge AI

Surge AI supplies human-generated data and reinforcement learning environments for training AI models, with the stated mission to "raise AGI with the richness of humanity". Recorded here: what it sells, in its own words, 2 funding events, 1 revenue figure and 4 public prices.

San Francisco, California, USFounded 2020surgehq.aiLatest record 15 Oct 2026

$1.2B

revenue, FY2024

$25B

valuation, Jul 2025

What Surge AI sells

In its own words, read on its own site 15 Oct 2026. On the vendor register

What it sells

RL environments: “We create rich, complex RL environments that challenge agentic models in novel ways, and design verifiers that reward their behavior.” surgehq.ai

Datasets: “Our off-the-shelf datasets are the same: thousands of hours of expert reasoning, pre-built and ready to use today, spanning RL environments, coding, and the core capabilities every model needs.” surgehq.ai

Expert and human data: “We bootstrap model capabilities through demonstrations: teaching them to use computers, navigate the web, and reason for the first time.” surgehq.ai

Evaluations and benchmarks: “Test models and AI systems against custom benchmarks and evaluation sets before they reach customers.” surgehq.ai

Where its data comes from

Made by experts and contractors: “Training data, evals, and RL environments built by the same experts behind our frontier-lab work.” surgehq.ai

Buys data from owners
Its pages do not say it does.
Areas its pages name
Coding, Business work, Finance, Legal, Medical, Science, Images and video, Speech and audio, Languages

Public prices involving Surge AI

What Surge AI earns

Revenue, run rates and ARR as each was published. Run rates are often a best month times twelve, and gross figures include what passes through to experts.

  • FY2024
    Measure
    revenue
    Figure
    $1.2B

Funding and acquisitions

  • 30 Jul 2025
    Event
    valuation
    Amount
    $1B
    Valuation
    $25B
  • 1 Jul 2025
    Event
    valuation
    Amount
    $1B
    Valuation
    $15B

Cite this

AIData.Broker, “Surge AI in the AI training data market”, reviewed 15 Oct 2026. https://aidata.markets/companies/surge

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