"Sama was a force multiplier for us and a key success factor for our project. They delivered high-quality annotated data on time, listened to our feedback, and were very flexible in accommodating our requests."
"The knowledge and processes, and employee equity, support, and wellness programs we see at Sama have set the bar for all of our other vendors."
Appen collects and labels images, text, speech, audio, video, and other data used to build and continuously improve the world’s most innovative artificial intelligence systems. Their expertise includes having a global crowd of over one million skilled contractors who speak over 180 languages and dialects, in over 70,000 locations and 130 countries, and the industry’s most advanced AI-assisted data annotation platform. Their reliable training data gives leaders in technology, automotive, financial services, retail, healthcare, and governments the confidence to deploy world-class AI products. Founded in 1996, Appen has customers and offices globally.
Cortical.io provides natural language understanding (NLU) solutions that enable large enterprises to automate the extraction, monitoring, and analysis of key information from any kind of text data. By understanding the meaning of text, Cortical.io Retina software reduces the time and effort it takes to complete business-critical data search and review processes. Many repetitive and error-prone manual steps are eliminated, freeing up valuable resources to focus on higher-value tasks. Cortical.io solutions can be quickly trained without supervision in the specialized vocabulary of any business domain and in multiple languages. Their enterprise-grade technology is implemented at multiple Fortune 100 businesses, covering a wide spectrum of use cases. Their unique approach is inspired by the latest findings on the way the brain processes information. It helps businesses solve many open NLU challenges like meaning-based filtering of terabytes of unstructured text data, real-time topic detection in social media, or semantic search over millions of documents across languages. Their work has been featured in The Economist, Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg, and Gartner.
Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Since their founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. From offering search in a single language Google now offer dozens of products and services—including various forms of advertising and web applications for all kinds of tasks—in scores of languages. And starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, Google now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. A lot has changed since the first Google search engine appeared. But some things haven’t changed: Google dedication to users and belief in the possibilities of the Internet itself.