"My company Protege is announcing DataLab: a dedicated research institution whose mission is to close the data gap that is holding back AI progress." "Right now, there’s no leading lab for AI data: no institution that combines large-scale data access with rigorous data research, curation, and experimentation. There are smaller groups doing valuable data research and advising the big AI labs. But nobody has yet built an institution that does both, and at scale. And that’s a really serious problem. Because while models and chips have received a huge amount of attention, researchers at every frontier lab will tell you the same thing: high-quality data is the bottleneck for AI progress. Not compute, not architecture, but data." @withprotegeai CEO @BobbySamuels on why the world needs an AI lab for data: https://www.a16z.news/p/the-world-needs-an-ai-lab-for-data(a16z)