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Snorkel AI and Google Cloud accelerate AI innovation

Snorkel AI is teaming up with Google Cloud to help F500 companies and AI innovators solve their most difficult problems.

February 2, 2023

Building better datasets with Snorkel Flow error analysis

As machine learning practitioners, few of us would expect the first version of a new model to achieve our objective. We plan for multiple rounds of iteration to address errors and improve performance, and the Snorkel Flow platform provides tools to enable this kind of iteration within the data-centric AI framework.

February 2, 2023

Seldon and Snorkel AI partner to advance data-centric AI

Together, Snorkel AI and Seldon enable enterprises to adopt AI across the business at scale by dramatically accelerating development and deployment and tightening the feedback loop to rapidly respond to data drift or changing business requirements.

February 1, 2023

Accuracy top concern for Foundation Model adoption—Poll

Most poll respondents at Snorkel AI’s recent Foundation Model Virtual Summit named questionable accuracy as the biggest barrier preventing them from getting organizational value from Foundation Models.

January 31, 2023

How Foundation Models bolster programmatic labeling

Snorkel CEO Alex Ratner interviews Mayee Chen about how Liger improves the effectiveness of programmatic labeling through foundation model embeddings.

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January 26, 2023

Snorkel AI partners with Snowflake to bring data-centric AI to the Snowflake Data Cloud

Snorkel AI has teamed with Snowflake to help our shared customers transform raw, unstructured data into actionable, AI-powered insights.

January 25, 2023

Unmasking Trafficking Risk in Commercial Sex Supply Chains with Machine Learning

Hamsa Bastani presented a summary of her and her co-authors’ ongoing work using machine learning and Snorkel AI’s tools to detect and track activities that are associated with a high risk for global sex trafficking.

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January 20, 2023

Prompting and weak supervision to build better, smaller models

Snorkel AI co-founder and CEO Alex Ratner recently interviewed several Snorkel researchers about their published academic papers. In this video, Alex talks with Ryan Smith, Senior Applied Scientist at Snorkel, about the work he did on using foundation models to build compact, deployable, and effective models.

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January 19, 2023

FM Summit shows Foundation Model hurdles and potential

Snorkel AI held its Foundation Model Summit Jan 17, bringing together 12 presenters and over 600 attendees at 10 virtual sessions. The event drew registrants from across many sectors, including the tech industry, healthcare, and financial services.

January 18, 2023

Contrastive Learning boosts Foundation Model specialization

Snorkel AI co-founder and CEO Alex Ratner talks with Ananya Kumar about the work he did on improving the effectiveness of foundation models by using contrastive learning, image augmentations, and labeled subsamples.

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January 13, 2023

Adapting language-based models beyond English

While a majority of Natural Language Processing (NLP) models focus on English, the real world requires solutions that work with languages across the globe. This demo shows how effectively users can build cross-language models in Snorkel Flow.

January 12, 2023

How Pixability uses foundation models to accelerate NLP application development by months

Using Snorkel Flow, Pixability has created a way to build classifiers for massive amounts of YouTube data quickly—that was previously out of reach.

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January 11, 2023

Speech AI Demystified | FDCAI Lightning Talk

Sirisha Rella, Technical Product Marketing Manager at Nvidia, recently gave a Lightning Talk presentation on “demystifying” speech AI at Snorkel AI’s Future of Data-Centric AI virtual conference.

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January 10, 2023

Snorkel AI to host Foundation Model Virtual Summit, registration now open

Snorkel AI will hold a free Foundation Model Virtual Summit on Tuesday, January 17 where speakers from across the technology industry, including some from Google and Stanford University, will discuss the enterprise use of Foundation Models.

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January 5, 2023

Demo: Using Snorkel Flow to train Microsoft Azure Form Recognizer models

Snorkel Flow debuts a new integration with Microsoft Azure Form Recognizer to help organizations leverage Azure AI services.

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January 5, 2023

Ask Me Anything approach bolsters foundation models

Researcher Simran Arora tells Snorkel CEO Alex Ratner how she improved foundation model effectiveness by using “Ask Me Anything”-style questions.

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January 4, 2023

Snorkel Flow 2022 year-end release roundup

See what’s in our latest Snorkel Flow release and how we’re accelerating data-centric AI development further.

January 3, 2023

Combining human and artificial intelligence with human-in-the-loop ML | FDCAI

More components in an ML lifecycle are designed to run on autopilot, but some tasks require human-in-the-loop ML, an active research topic that has seen an increasing number of publications in the last 10 years.

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December 28, 2022

How a top 3 US bank used Snorkel Flow to automate 10-K review for their analysts

A central innovation team at a top US bank wanted to modernize its AI development and data annotation processes in order to create a custom natural language processing (NLP) model that could extract important financial information from 10-Ks. Manually reviewing these documents was taking up valuable time that could be better spent assisting customers. The team used Snorkel Flow’s data-centric AI development process and programmatic labeling to train a customized NLP model that could accurately extract information on interest rate swaps.

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December 23, 2022

How programmatic labeling can minimize data exposure

MIT’s Technology Review reported this week that workers in Venezuela contracted by outsourced data annotation services provider shared customer data—low-angled pictures intended to be labeled, including one that featured a woman in a private moment in the bathroom—with each other on social media. Programmatic labeling could have minimized this.

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December 21, 2022

How Georgetown University’s CSET uses Snorkel Flow to build NLP applications to inform policy research

Georgetown University’s CSET is building next-generation NLP applications using Snorkel Flow to classify complex research documents. Snorkel Flow drastically reduced labeling, model training, and iteration time and better equipped CSET’s data science team to collaborate closely with analysts to gather, process, and interpret data at scale. 

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December 19, 2022

Seven research papers push foundation model boundaries

The recent debut of ChatGPT astounded the public with the power and speed of foundation models, but their enterprise use remains hampered by adaptation and deployment challenges. In the past year, Snorkel AI has researched several ways to overcome those challenges. 

December 15, 2022

Snorkel AI Partners with Advanced Analytics Consultancy Aimpoint Digital

Snorkel AI is delighted to announce a partnership with Aimpoint Digital, a premier analytics firm specializing in AI application development that builds, operationalizes, and scales data science solutions for biopharma, manufacturing, retail, and other major industries. Aimpoint Digital leads the industry in solving complex challenges and exploiting value-generating opportunities for organizations of all sizes through data. The company helps clients…

December 12, 2022

Supercharge data scientist and domain expert collaboration with Comments and Tags in Snorkel Flow

Labeling data manually can be a grind. Snorkel Flow slashes labeling time from months to minutes by allowing data scientists and domain experts collaborate through labeling functions. Snorkel Flow offers two unique capabilities that further supercharge that collaboration: Comments and Tags.

December 9, 2022

Snorkel AI Team presents research at NeurIPS 2022

The Snorkel AI team will present five research papers advancing weak supervision and programmatic labeling at the NeurIPS 2022 conference that started this week.

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November 29, 2022

Deepening Snorkel AI’s partnership with Microsoft Azure AI

Snorkel AI is excited to build on our partnership with Microsoft Azure to help enterprises and government agencies solve their most impactful problems and unlock value from their data using AI. Learn how Azure customers can easily deploy Snorkel Flow on their Azure cloud infrastructure to accelerate AI application development with data-centric workflows and programmatic labeling.

November 22, 2022

Data-centric Foundation Model Development: Bridging the gap between foundation models and enterprise AI

Introducing new capabilities for Data-centric Foundation Model Development in Snorkel Flow Powerful new large language or foundation models (FMs) like GPT-3, Stable Diffusion, BERT, and more have taken the AI space by storm, going viral—even beyond technical practitioners—thanks to incredible capabilities around text generation, image synthesis, and more. However, enterprises face fundamental barriers to using these foundation models on real,…

November 17, 2022

Better not bigger: How to get GPT-3 quality at 0.1% the cost

We created Data-centric Foundation Model Development to bridge the gaps between foundation models and enterprise AI. New Snorkel Flow capabilities (Foundation Model Fine-tuning, Warm Start, and Prompt Builder) give data science and machine learning teams the tools they need to effectively put foundation models (FMs) to use for performance-critical enterprise use cases. The need is clear: despite undeniable excitement about…

What can Data-Centric AI learn from data & ML engineering?

Databricks’ Chief Technologist: Data-Centric AI can learn from Data Engineering and ML Engineering in five ways: continuous updates, versioning, code-centric deployment, data privatization and actionable monitoring.

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November 5, 2022

Building an NLP application to analyze ESG factors in Earnings Calls using Snorkel Flow

Create a data-centric AI application using Snorkel Flow to save your analysts time of manual labeling and information extraction related to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors from earnings call transcripts. Rapidly and accurately extract all existing and new factors from the transcripts to make the right investment decision.

November 3, 2022
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