Very cool work from our lab Microsoft Research in India, on dignified digital labor for ethical data collection, now spun off into a startup, Karya Inc, covered by Time Magazine!

Indian AI startup Karya AI just made it to the cover of Time Magazine. And it's not for hitting the unicorn status in record time, but for reasons that will blow your mind 🤯 Details: - Founded in 2021, Karya AI flips the data industry's business model on its head. They sell

This is the question we get the most often - what happens after Karya workers reach $1500 economic milestone? Do read our latest blog about Karya Learn and Grow, our next two verticals in the Karya ecosystem. (1/3)

linkedin.com/pulse/what-hap… At Karya, we want to work with our workers for a minimum period of 5 years, ensuring we are able to sustainably move them out of poverty. We look forward to collaborating with our incredible supporters across the Ecosystem - (2/3)

Whether it's through Karya Earn (giving digital, dignified jobs to rural Indians), Karya Learn (multilingual, smartphone-based skilling opportunities) and Karya Grow (full-time career opportunities for our workers). The work is only just getting started ☺️ (3/3)

Thrilled to share that we are at Interspeech 2023! Come visit our booth to explore how you can source your AI training datasets ethically :) INTERSPEECH 2025 #Interspeech2023

Excited to share that our co-founder Manu Chopra has been selected as 2023 Echoing Green fellow! More details in the link below: fellows.echoinggreen.org/fellow/manu-ch…

I am absolutely honored to be nominated among TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in AI time.com/collection/tim… At Karya, we pay our workers 20x the Indian min. wage, redirect majority of revenue to our workers, and invest in their welfare beyond just giving work.

We're thrilled to announce that Karya has secured a spot in Google for Startups accelerator: Women Founders India. It's an honor to be recognized among such amazing innovators! #GoogleForStartups #InnovationJourney blog.google/intl/en-in/int…

We’re thrilled to be one of the organizations in Fast Forward and HPE Living Progress’s fifth annual HPE Accelerating Impact Campaign! Over the next two weeks, the campaign will engage over 60K HPE employees across the globe to learn about and support tech nonprofits like us. #hpegives

#BloombergCatalysts Manu Chopra aims to tackle extreme poverty by providing dignified work in India. Created as the world's first ethical data cooperative, Karya enables economic opportunities for rural Indians, giving them a pathway out of poverty.

2023 marks the first full year of Karya's operations. We are extremely grateful to the 35k+ participants we work with. We are also grateful to our clients and donors who enable our work. Please take a look at the report here: karya.in/reports/2023/ and share your feedback :)

2023 marks the first full year of Karya's operations. We are extremely grateful to the 35k+ participants we work with. We are also grateful to our clients and donors who enable our work. Please take a look at the report here: karya.in/reports/2023/ and share your feedback :)

Science x Social Experiments x Arts converge in our “Shaping Policy, Transforming Lives” exhibition as we celebrate J-PAL's 20 years! Join us and explore stories of change, empowerment and hope we’ve collected through the years. #JPALat20 #ShapingPolicy #TransformingLives

Great to be in India this week meeting with changemakers like the team at Karya, who are doing the critical work of building high-quality datasets for AI—and expanding economic opportunity at the same time. news.microsoft.com/source/asia/fe…

Go KARYA Technologies !! A big shout out to Vivek Seshadri, Manu Chopra and Safiya Husain!!! And all of the #karya team and workers!

From a research idea to an impactful organization, great to see Karya come so far. Congrats Vivek Seshadri, Manu Chopra , kalikabali and to the entire team at Karya and MSR India !

Under BHASHINI, Ministry of Electronics & IT's flagship AI effort for Indic languages, IISc Bangalore's ARTPARK - AI & Robotics Technology Park plans to open-source 16,000 hours of spontaneous speech from 80 districts as part of Project Vaani in collaboration with Google. m.economictimes.com/tech/technolog…

Project Vaani: Under #BHASHINI, IISc to open source 16,000 hours of speech data Read the full story here: economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technolog… Ministry of Electronics & IT Amitabh Nag IISc Bangalore

Introducing Veo 2, our new, state-of-the-art video model (with better understanding of real-world physics & movement, up to 4K resolution). You can join the waitlist on VideoFX. Our new and improved Imagen 3 model also achieves SOTA results, and is coming today to 100+ countries