Uber Technologies is moving beyond its rideshare roots and venturing into the hot artificial intelligence development outsourcing market. The company's new division, Scaled Solutions, is expanding

Uber has introduced a new gig economy initiative, expanding its workforce to support AI development through data labeling and coding services. The company’s newly branded Scaled Solutions division hires independent contractors to handle AI annotation,

Bloomberg reports that Uber has started farming out independent contractors for data-labeling services as well as coders-for-hire. Uber describes its new Scaled Solutions division as a platform of “analysts,

Uber has started hiring contractors to label data for both internal business units and other companies like Aurora Innovation and Niantic.

Uber Technologies Inc.’s gig-economy workforce now includes programmers. The company is expanding beyond its rideshare roots to enter a hot new market: helping other businesses outsource some of their artificial intelligence development to independent contractors.