SiaSearch (acquired by Scale AI)

Building robust, industrial AI like automated driving is extremely difficult. Everyone thinks about algorithms, but up to 75% of engineering time is spent on highly manual tasks, namely manually reviewing and selecting masses of data instead of building algorithms. That is why we developed SiaSearch, a data management platform which automatically extracts frame-level, contextual metadata and utilizes it for fast data exploration, selection and evaluation. Automating these tasks with metadata can more than double engineering productivity and remove the bottleneck to building industrial AI. In November 2021, SiaSearch was acquired by Scale AI. The SiaSearch team will join Scale's Nucleus business unit and the technology will be woven into the Nucleus product, enabling Scale AI to provide the full data engine for every AI team.