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Appen is listed on DirJournal under Data Labeling & Annotation Services in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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About

Appen

Appen is an Australian publicly traded AI data services company providing human-annotated training data to the worlds largest technology companies. With over 1 million skilled contractors across 170 countries, Appen delivers data annotation, collection, and evaluation in 235+ languages for search, NLP, and computer vision models.

DirJournal's Perspective

Editorial analysis

Appen commands the world's largest distributed workforce for AI training data, processing annotations in 235+ languages across 170 countries. This scale creates a competitive moat that smaller vendors cannot replicate, making the company essential infrastructure for generative AI development at

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Frequently Asked

About Appen

What does Appen do?
Appen is an Australian publicly traded AI data services company providing human-annotated training data to the worlds largest technology companies. With over 1 million skilled contractors across 170 countries, Appen delivers data annotation, collection, and evaluation in 235+ languages for search, NLP, and computer vision models.
Where is Appen based?
Appen is based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
When was Appen founded?
Appen was founded in 1996 and has been operating for 30 years.
How can I contact Appen?
Contact Appen by phone at +61-2-9468-6300.
Technical Grounding
JSON-LDOrganization
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Founded
1996
Team Size
1-10 employees
Digital Footprint · Technical Entity Graph
  • Website
    appen.comHTTPS
  • Schema Type
    Organization
  • JSON-LD
    Active
  • NAP Vault ID
    Not assigned
  • Social Profiles
    None linked
  • Platform Tenure
    New listing
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Organization
areaServed
Worldwide
openingHours
Open 24/7

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Data Annotation1M+ Contractors235+ LanguagesTraining DataASX Listed

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