"Startup Empowers Rural India with AI Work for Google, Microsoft, and More"
Karya, a not-for-profit enterprise, is empowering rural Indians to earn higher wages by creating quality data sets for companies like Microsoft and Google to train AI models. With workers spread across 100 districts in 22 states, Karya offers 20 times the minimum wage for simple dataset generation tasks. The platform enables workers to earn royalties from the sale of their data, providing a source of supplemental income. Founded by Manu Chopra, Karya aims to move 100 million rural Indians out of poverty by 2030.