Unstructured’s Bet on Transforming Data Prep for AI with $0 in the Bank and a Vision for LLMs

I made a bet early on with Unstructured, I was like look we're not going to build anything in the first year of this defensible except for resolution on what the market wants, and the fastest way to achieve that is by building open-source.
Over the past decade, Brian Raymond and the founding team of engineers at Unstructured Technologies have been navigating a consistent challenge in the natural language processing (NLP) space: clients eager to dive into AI/ML solutions, but hindered by the frustrating reality that their data was trapped in unusable formats. This common pain point became the driving force behind the creation of Unstructured, a company focused on solving the data preprocessing problem that has plagued the industry for years. Data Bottlenecks in NLP The world of data science has long been held back by a persistent challenge in NLP: preparing unstructured data for machine learning models. Data scientists were continuously forced to build bespoke, one-off data connectors and preprocessing pipelines to make
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Anshika Mathews
Anshika is the Senior Content Strategist for AIM Research. She holds a keen interest in technology and related policy-making and its impact on society. She can be reached at anshika.mathews@aimresearch.co
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