Hyundai Motor and Lotte have invested in Bobbidi, an AI model testing platform company.



According to related industries on the 15th, Hyundai Motor Group and Lotte Ventures (CVC) participated in seed funding worth $5.8 million (about 7.7 billion won) for Bobby D.



In addition to these companies, △ We Ventures △ ZER01NE △ Scrum Ventures △ New Product Experiment (NPE) △ Meta △ Atlas Pacific Capital △ Combinator was named in this round.



Bobby D plans to use the investment funds to develop various core machine learning technologies while also hiring talent to run the global community.



NPE investment manager Sunita Parasuraman said, “Barbidi is more effectively verifying the AI model with innovative solutions led by people around the world,” adding, “I am happy to sponsor talented developers.”



Meanwhile, BobbyD, established in June 2020, is a global community that can test AI models with people around the world in advance. Participants can team up with others to develop their performance and build their identity. It can also earn $10 to $20 an hour.