# Abaka AI

> Abaka AI supplies curated datasets, custom data collection, annotation, model evaluation, and specialist talent to AI developers. Its Abaka Forge platform manages multimodal data workflows for generative AI, automotive AI, and embodied AI teams.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** Palo Alto, United States
- **Founders:** Jack Lin (Co-founder), Yunfei Zhao (Co-founder and COO)
- **Products:** Abaka Forge, Curated datasets, Data collection and annotation, Model evaluation, Embedded data talent
- **Notable:** Co-founder Jack Lin appeared on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia enterprise technology list in 2024., Published the VeriGUI agent-data project with open research links in September 2025., Reports more than 1,000 enterprise and research customers; company claim.

## Products & services

- **Abaka Forge** — Multimodal annotation and data production platform with automation, workflow management, and review.
- **Curated datasets** — Off-the-shelf text, audio, image, video, 3D, reasoning, and agent datasets.
- **Data collection and annotation** — Custom capture, cleaning, labeling, and specialist review for customer-defined tasks.
- **Model evaluation** — Evaluation of accuracy, safety, robustness, and domain-specific performance.
- **Embedded data talent** — Vetted professionals working in customer workflows on flexible engagements.
- **RL environments** — Stateful enterprise simulations with reward signals and reproducible resets.
- **Physical AI data** — Human demonstration, robot execution, and world-context data.
- **Full-duplex speech data** — Isolated, aligned speaker tracks preserving natural conversational overlap.

## Achievements

- Co-founder Jack Lin appeared on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia enterprise technology list in 2024.
- Published the VeriGUI agent-data project with open research links in September 2025.
- Reports more than 1,000 enterprise and research customers; company claim.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — The blog lists a September 24 article on challenging AB-Terminal Bench tasks.
- **2026-08** — The blog lists an August 20 RetailServe agent-training article.
- **2026-05** — An external report describes an $8 million financing; the current company site says fully self-funded, so financing status remains unresolved.
- **2026-04** — Published an AB-Terminal Bench article about executable coding tasks and verification.

## Links

- Website: https://www.abaka.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/abaka-ai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/abaka_ai

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Last updated: 2026-10-23