BANGALORE (BLOOMBERG) – In her one-room home on a quiet street in Agara, a tiny village three hours southwest of Bangalore, India that’s fringed by rice paddies and groundnut fields, Preethi P sits on a stool near a sewing machine. Normally, she would spend hours mending or stitching clothes, averaging less than USD1 a day […]
Karya differentiates itself from other data vendors by offering its contractors - mostly women, and mostly in rural communities - as much as 20 times the prevailing minimum wage.
Preethi, who goes by a single name, as is common in the region, is among the 70 workers hired in Agara and neighboring villages by a startup called Karya to gather text, voice and image data in India’s vernacular languages.
Some of the most prominent names in Silicon Valley are working with Manu Chopra s Karya to build AI tools that better support non-English speakers in India.