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The Booming Business of Turning Human Experts Into AI Trainers

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03.02.2026

Silicon Valley startup Micro1 is signing up everyone from police officers to nuclear scientists to teach LLMs.

BY VARSHA BANSAL, FREELANCE WRITER

Illustration: Inc.; Photo: Getty Images

Last year, when Soren Eustis, a chemist with a PhD and several years of teaching experience, was scouring LinkedIn, he noticed a “huge explosion of AI jobs,” including roles for chemists to train LLMs. The idea of applying for a role that could potentially train an AI to replace his career was off-putting at first.........

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