Thanks to Jonathan Webdale at C21Media for the excellent coverage of Protege’s acquisition of Calliope Networks. Quoting Protege CEO Bobby Samuels, C21 notes:
“‘Access to training data is the single biggest bottleneck facing the AI community today. To date, the most sophisticated models have been primarily trained on public, scrapable data, while most human knowledge, data, and content is proprietary and non-scrapable. Protege was launched to bridge this gap, and the Calliope team’s deep expertise in licensing premium content makes them the perfect group to integrate rich media data into our platform,’ said Samuels, who is Protege CEO.”
“Calliope, founded last year by former NBCUniversal, Paramount and 20th Century Fox exec Dave Davis and data scientist James Golden, will now form the media arm of Protege – itself a start-up launched earlier this year by data specialists Bobby Samuels and serial entrepreneur Travis May, CEO of Shaper Capital.”
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