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Karya achieves this while also delivering high quality, timely, and price competitive data to its clients.\nKarya builds high quality datasets for large companies like Google and Microsoft, while providing ethical work opportunities and fair wages to its workforce.\nKarya’s workers make nearly 20 times the Indian minimum wage and through our one-of-a-kind digital work platform, we have delivered over 40 million digital tasks and have positively impacted over 100 thousand workers. In the coming years, our goal is to rapidly scale our impact by bringing economic opportunities to millions of underserved users in India. With a rapidly growing global presence, we are also looking to expand our client base in the Indian market by partnering with leading Indian enterprises.\nAbout the Role\n\nWe are looking for a detail-oriented and curious Data Curation Intern to help build high-quality datasets for training AI/ML models with a specific focus on Indian language and multilingual data. 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