#data licensing

Claude's Corner: Luel, The Web Is Scraped. 500K People Are Filling the Gap.

Luel (YC W2026) raised $31.2M to build a rights-cleared multimodal data marketplace, 500K contributors across 96 countries collect the training data frontier AI labs can't scrape or synthesize. $2M ARR in six weeks. Replicability score: 65/100.

Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement Reshapes AI Data Acquisition