Kled AI

Today, we’re announcing our $5.5M Seed round to build the first human data marketplace. Backed by Sebastian Thrun (Founder of Waymo), Aglaé (Venture Fund of Bernard Arnault), K5 Global, Diplo, Parable VC, Cox Exponential (CX2), Daniel Greenberg (Founder of MSCHF), Harrison Shih (DoorDash Labs), Kent Lacob (Owner of Golden State Warriors), and more. This brings our total financing to $9 million. (Thread)

1 year later.

@avipat_ lab trust is the only thing that matters to us, this will be rolled out soon to the public

our biggest focus for the next 2 months at kled is trust & safety. so we built a fully public audit trail for every single upload on the app, updates automatically the second it's made. the moment we send data to an AI lab, they can search the hash ID of any image, video, doc, or audio file and see exactly: - the tos + privacy policy the user signed - every compliance check we ran - anonymized kyc proof - confirmation the user got paid - a full timestamp of the entire interaction start to finish any ai lab can now verify the legitimacy of any dataset in seconds, making us the first data marketplace in history to publicize its data audit records. consumer identities are fully anonymized and hidden, no users will be exposed in the process.

@solana @avipat_ Own your data

Why We Ship: @useKled Pokémon Go players generated 30 billion images and videos that Niantic used, and never saw a cent for it. @avipat_ built Kled so the people generating the data get rewarded. 50,000 DMs and three and a half years later, it's the largest human-powered data collection effort in history, distributing rewards on Solana.

@avipat_ 🇲🇾

Kled just entered voice. Users can record and upload real-world speech, capturing tone, accent, emotion, and context in a way models can actually learn from. We’ll initially support multilingual uploads across: Malay (Bahasa Malaysia), Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia), and Filipino/Tagalog. Voice is one of the most under-collected, high-value data types in AI today. Accents, tone, emotion, environment. This is the layer models still struggle with. All voice data will be packaged and sold to leading voice foundation model teams, both directly and through our distribution partners. We’ve designed 50 starter tasks, rolling out in our V3 update, so users can start contributing immediately.

@avipat_ Kled is for everyone

There's been a long-held assumption that gig work is for lower-income households. We're watching that change in real time with Kled. We survey 5,000 users every month. Middle-income users have grown from 2.2% at launch to nearly 6%. Steady, consistent, and still climbing. As we've made the platform more frictionless, it makes sense. The effort-to-earning ratio on Kled is fundamentally different from Uber, Fiverr, or anything else out there. We think Kled's live to earn experience can comfortably own more of the gig economy than any other platform, across every income bracket.

@0xmeowfr should be rolled out this quarter

@useKled where is the task for 500 selfies for 1000$? 🧐

AI data collection companies like Kled are paying up to $10,000/month for U.S.-based college students and graduates. No CS degree required. This quarter, we're doubling down on U.S. opportunities by slowly introducing over $30,000,000 in task rewards for qualified, KYC'd users. Tasks are built around everyday human activity: upload 500 selfies for $1,000, record a quick video of yourself taking out the trash for $5, or upload your tax return for $150. All data advances leading AI models, with full consent, anonymization, and fair compensation. Download Kled on the App Store and join the fastest-growing gig economy.

@avipat_ 0 marketing spend, IOS app only

Almost 1 year since Kled launched. Here's a full chart showing daily uploads our platform has processed over time. We're comfortably on track to do 5 billion uploads this year.

@avipat_ Your affiliate code can be found on your profile page. Download the Kled app today!

We've done 6 million views per week with 0 marketing spend in just Asia alone. Our affiliate system has motivated thousands of people to make posts on X, Threads, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, etc. We are permanently increasing our affiliate system payout rate from this date forward. Refer your friends and now earn off of their uploads. The best contributors are rewarded the most.

We have conquered Asia. Over the last few days Kled has hit #1 on the App store finance charts in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Philippines. We've run a risk analysis on over 400 million data uploads from these regions, and have found these to be some of our highest quality unloaders. Thank you to all our users out there, and keep uploading great content. We've tripled our payouts for the next 1 week in celebration.

@avipat_ kled.ai

Fraud detection is the single biggest problem with data marketplaces. Kled currently works with most of the large foundation models on extremely sensitive consumer projects. 30 min out of every 30 min initial call has rightfully been focused on questions regarding how airtight our licensing rights, data anonymization, and fraud detection systems are. 2 out of 3 of these problems are not hard to solve, our TOS is airtight and we've spent a lot of time working on BIPA, GDPR, CCPA, COPPA, etc. regulation control. Users on our marketplace are very well aware of their rights and what they get in return. Anonymization is also a mostly solved problem across different data modalities, we can confidently remove any sensitive information and non-user generated content from any dataset. Fraud is a much harder problem altogether. It requires a combination of device fingerprinting, duplicate upload cluster detection, behavioral analysis to identify coordinated submission rings, ML systems to identify bad submission quality across tasks, etc. We've invested heavily in building these systems and it's the problem we're most obsessed with solving at scale. The UFDP is one of the many tools we will need to solve this problem. It is a step in the right direction. I will always opt into building slower and giving 100% perfect data to any of our customers while we ramp up speed over time. This is our moat and this trust will single handedly make Kled 1000x more valuable as a business compared to any other data marketplace in existence.

@StreetFDN $KLED

[ KLED x STREET ] Street Frontier II now has the right to buy up to 10.00% in Nitrility Inc., the parent company of @useKled with a current position of 5.00% in shares. Kled has committed 100% of the $KLED trading fees to the Street Frontier II SPV, which are then reinvested into Nitrility Inc. by the Street SPV. $KLED tokenholders don't have to do anything. No need to KYC, no need to lose your liquid tokens. No need to get rid of liquidity. No cutting out 98% of tokenholders. Welcome to the future. With this SAFE the equity value held by Street Frontier II comes up to USD14,000,000 based on the last raise of Nitrility Inc. Kled hereby participates in the ERC-S framework.

@avipat_ $KLED

The entire captcha network is fully decentralized. Payouts are powered by $KLED. We already have a user base in early testing. The whitelist is open today. ufdp.ai by Kled.

Traditional captchas are becoming worthless. AI can now solve any fixed image grid automatically. reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, every major service on the market pulls from a pre-labeled problem set. Once AI learns the set, it is over. UFDP has all the same standard bot detection built in. But the captcha itself is unsolvable by AI because it is never the same twice. Every question is a brand new real world data point pulled live from a pipeline of 5 million daily uploads. There is no problem set to train on. There is no pattern to crack. The only thing that can answer it is a genuine human judgment call.

We created the world’s best captcha. The first captcha that is: free for companies, pays you to solve it, impossible to bot, and instead of showing you images of random traffic lights, you’re shown real AI training data to validate. Data is provided exclusively by Kled, and once validated is sent directly to the leading foundation models and robotics companies to further the advancement of AGI. Introducing ufdp.ai - The Universal Fraud Detection Protocol. (Read Full Thread Below)