Source: The Next Web
The fragmentation of AI development across geographies—researchers in London, engineers in Tel Aviv, data annotators in Southeast Asia—has created a payroll infrastructure crisis that legacy HR systems can't solve. Papaya Global's bet is that the company able to automate cross-border compensation, tax compliance, and contractor classification at scale becomes essential infrastructure for the next decade of AI development. Global payroll efficiency is a constraint on how fast AI labs can scale their workforces. Whoever solves it fastest gains a structural advantage in talent acquisition.