Not just a dataset but hacking community and contest:
> Matthew Zeiler built Clarifai based off his 2013 ImageNet win, and is now backed by $40 million in VC funding.
On a side note, this looks like a fun company to build: hacking on ML, exposing it via APIs, developers as customers, paid for on a resource basis like a VPS style per-use payment plan.
It's interesting how many of these AI startups are raising huge rounds. The words AI seems to draw them in. At least this one has an obvious business model.
I was went to an AI talk at MIT CSAIL (the same Vicarious one I mentioned in another thread). Me and a guy got talking on the way out. He figured I seemed pretty clever, so he started asking me what sorts of companies to invest in.
Turned out he was an investor with some VC firm. I did a little mention of the place I worked at the time (which isn't an AI company, but wanted to be when it was young), but didn't have a business card to give him at he time.
I was actually kinda surprised an investor was attending a talk and saying, quite so uncritically, "hmmm, who do the smart people at talks say I should invest with?"
> Matthew Zeiler built Clarifai based off his 2013 ImageNet win, and is now backed by $40 million in VC funding.
On a side note, this looks like a fun company to build: hacking on ML, exposing it via APIs, developers as customers, paid for on a resource basis like a VPS style per-use payment plan.
It's interesting how many of these AI startups are raising huge rounds. The words AI seems to draw them in. At least this one has an obvious business model.