Spanish NLP Data Labeling Platform Argilla Raises USD 1.6M in Seed Funding
The open-source platform helps users build and refine datasets without hand-labeling training examples. Funding round co-led by Caixa Capital Risc and Zetta Venture Partners.
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Appen Moves Operations Offshore as Shares Continue to Decline
Share price falls after release of trading update; expecting disappointing full-year 2022 revenue and EBITDA results.
Appen Shares Plunge on Disappointing H1 2022 Results and Full-Year Outlook
Appen reports H1 2022 revenues to be down 7% and EBITDA down 69% versus the comparable period last year. CEO of data-for-AI provider blames sector slowdown rather than competition.
Appen Updates Investors on Productizing Linguistic Expertise
Among the platforms and workflows featured in Appen’s 2022 Investor Technology Day: Ontology Studio, which “productizes core components” of Appen’s “linguistic expertise.”
Lionbridge AI Buyer, Telus, Abruptly Abandons USD 700m Appen Bid
Australia data annotation provider, Appen, gets buyout offer from Telus, buyer of Lionbridge AI business. In surprising about-face, Canadian call center giant walks away.
Appen Share Prices Tumble After Data-for-AI Leader Releases FY 2021 Results
Record annual revenue of USD 447m unable to offset investor disappointment in ASX-traded company after downgraded EBITDA guidance and plunge in net profit after tax.
For Dataset Creation, Humans Should Evaluate Machine Text — New Research
As more language service providers explore data collection and annotation, a new study shows large language models generate more diverse content, while humans excel at rating it.
Appen Pivots to Product-Led Strategy; Shares Down 49% Year to Date
AI data leader Appen sees share price drop 11% in May amid continuing retreat from all-time highs of 2020. Company splits reporting into separate Services and Product segments.
Why Data-for-AI Providers Need a Problem-Solving Mindset
Language service providers Venga Global and e2f along with renowned publisher Oxford Languages discuss data-for-AI services, AI use cases, and supplier recruitment challenges.
Appen Shares Tumble After Disappointing Results and 2021 Outlook
While Covid’s impact on clients’ priorities limited Appen’s revenue growth to 12%, the data-for-AI giant hopes new clients and the Chinese market will boost future performance.
6 Structural Reasons Why LSPs Are Set to Win in Data-for-AI Services
Workforce management is essential to an LSP’s core activities of translation and localization and may also be the golden ticket to new revenue streams in data-for-AI services.
Here’s How 6 Major LSP Client Segments Use Data for AI
Data-for-AI services are a new and highly specialized sub-industry of AI. But how exactly are text, image, and speech data used in an LSP’s end-customer segment?
Slator 2021 Data-for-AI Market Report
44-page report on the data-for-AI market, guiding LSPs on how to enter and scale in the fast-growing market of creating, collecting, and annotating data for artificial intelligence applications.
TransPerfect Treading Water in Q2 2020 as Pandemic Caps Growth
Slowed by the impact of the pandemic, TransPerfect’s revenues grew 4% to around USD 199m in Q2 2020 including acquisitions, and remained roughly flat on an organic basis.
A Warning About Data Annotation as a Business From a Man Who Sells AI to AI Firms
Acrolinx Founder Andrew Bredenkamp walked SlatorCon Amsterdam 2019 attendees through AI’s current challenges and his predictions for the next three years.
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