Toss Brings 30 Million Users Into the AI Data Economy in Partnership With Poseidon

Palo Alto, United States, June twenty sixth, 2026, Chainwire

Toss customers can now contribute real-world knowledge to coach AI and receives a commission for it, in a first-of-its-kind mannequin launching in Korea forward of worldwide growth.

Poseidon, the knowledge infrastructure constructed to supply and license real-world knowledge for AI, in the present day introduced a partnership with Toss, the cell monetary platform operated by Viva Republica, to let on a regular basis customers contribute to AI coaching and be paid for what they supply. It is Toss’s first transfer into AI knowledge, and it opens that market to its roughly 30 million customers.

Frontier AI has run out of web to scrape. The subsequent technology of fashions is dependent upon real-world knowledge, the variety that captures how individuals truly communicate, transfer, and react, which doesn’t exist on the open internet and has by no means had a clear strategy to be sourced, licensed, or paid for. Poseidon is constructing the infrastructure to alter that, and Toss brings the attain to do it at scale.

Through the partnership, Poseidon’s contributor app, Numo, launches inside the Toss app. Toss customers will help construct Korean-language coaching knowledge throughout voice, picture, and video, and obtain fee tied on to what they contribute. Poseidon supplies the infrastructure that tracks every contribution and its worth, whereas Toss supplies the consumer base and the monetary expertise that turns participation into fee. Together they provide a working reply to a query the AI business has struggled with, which is how one can compensate the individuals whose knowledge makes fashions higher.

Every contribution made by Numo is registered on DATA, the AI knowledge community that Poseidon refines knowledge for. DATA offers every report a verifiable provenance path by Trace, its public audit layer, so a purchaser can see the place a chunk of coaching knowledge got here from and a contributor can see that their work was counted and paid. DATA Foundation, which launched this week from the rebrand of Story, is constructing this layer alongside integration companions together with the human knowledge market Kled, and Poseidon is considered one of the largest sources of refined knowledge flowing into it.

What Numo collects is first-person knowledge, recorded by actual individuals in actual environments, which is amongst the hardest and most dear classes to acquire. It is the uncooked materials for bodily intelligence, the AI that has to function in the bodily world throughout robotics, autonomous autos, and different functions. Demand from world AI labs for this sort of knowledge is climbing, and Korea is positioned to produce it, with its dense real-life knowledge and Toss’s consumer base. Poseidon and Toss intend to show the mannequin in Korea, then develop to world markets.

Changhoon Seo, Executive (*30*) of New Business at Toss, mentioned: “As the AI business grows, demand for high-quality knowledge is rising simply as quick. Toss plans to construct an atmosphere the place customers can participate in the knowledge economic system extra simply and naturally, and to develop a construction in which the worth they contribute is rewarded transparently.”

SY Lee, Chief Strategy Officer and Chairman of Poseidon, mentioned: “Korea is considered one of the few markets the place the strategic significance of AI knowledge, a mature monetary system, and world-class cell expertise all exist without delay. Toss is the proper companion to show user-contributed AI knowledge from an early thought into a typical the remainder of the world can undertake.” Lee beforehand based the web-novel platform Radish and offered it to Kakao Entertainment, co-founded Story, the IP infrastructure that just lately rebranded as DATA Foundation, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum this yr.

About Poseidon

Poseidon is the knowledge infrastructure for AI, constructed to supply, refine, and license the real-world knowledge that frontier fashions want and the open web can not provide. Incubated by the staff behind The DATA Network, Poseidon bridges the hole between knowledge provide and AI demand by enabling entry to high-quality, IP-safe, and composable coaching datasets. Poseidon raised a $15 million seed spherical led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Poseidon’s contributor app, Numo, has recorded greater than 711,000 knowledge registrations worldwide and is obtainable and is now accessible on the Toss app.