Claim: Gengo Al was launched in March 2018 before being acquired by Lionbridge Technologies in January 2019.
Evidence: Lionbridge Technologies, Inc is an American company that provides localization and AI training data services. In December 2018, Lionbridge fully acquired Tokyo-based Gengo, a crowdsourced translation and AI training data provider. Gengo is a web-based human translation platform headquartered in Tokyo. In January 2019, Gengo and Gengo AI were acquired by Lionbridge Technologies and is being rebranded to Lionbridge AI. Gengo was founded in 2008 by Matthew Romaine and Robert Laing. In March 2018, the company launched Gengo AI, an on-demand platform that provides crowdsourced multilingual training data to machine learning developers.