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News, events, industry insights, and case studies in one list: 73 items since 2021. The most recent is from October 7, 2026.
2026
- Insights
Prompts Are the New Bounding Boxes: Human-in-the-Loop for Synthetic Data
Generating data doesn't remove people from the loop. Instead of drawing boxes, they write prompts, set variables, and review the results. The work looks surprisingly similar to data labeling.
- Insights
How Companies That Scraped the Web Before 2022 Got Lucky
Since generative AI went mainstream, more of the web is synthetic. Companies holding web data collected before 2022 now have an advantage that may be hard to match.
- Case study
Maritime Company Uses MLtwist for Nationwide Video Data Collection
A maritime technology company partnered with MLtwist to acquire a large scale video dataset capturing ocean environments from multiple points of view across the US.
- News
Candam Tech Chooses MLtwist Data Solutions: Tech + Workforce
Barcelona-based Candam Technologies is using MLtwist to process data and drive innovation in waste management.
- Insights
Why Data Sameness Matters More than You May think
In practice, model performance is deeply constrained by the data used during training. Sophisticated models trained on limited or poorly curated datasets rarely outperform simpler models trained on richer and more representative data.
- News
MLtwist Helps CS Researchers Create Language Models for Low-Resource Language
MLtwist was contracted to provide services to computer science researchers at the Stanford School of Engineering for a research project on language models for Sindhi, a low-resource language.
- Case study
Research-grade language data with a Data ID Card
Data for Stanford NLP research: the first Universal Dependencies dataset for Sindhi and a study of NER on Global Englishes.
- Insights
From Raw Video to AI-Ready Data: Solving the Unstructured Data Problem in Computer Vision
One of the most persistent bottlenecks is not model architecture. It is data preparation.
- Case study
How MLtwist Supported a Retail Analytics Platform in Matching Product SKU Text Data at Scale
Data driven retail platforms depend on clean, structured product information to generate accurate insights for brands, retailers, and supply chain partners.
- Case study
How MLtwist Supported a Cleantech Company Tracking Carbon Emission Activity for Regulatory Action
A cleantech company used MLtwist to expand and standardize its database of emission activities for country-specific carbon reporting.
- Case study
Automotive Company Uses MLtwist for Nationwide Commute Video Data Collection
An automotive company partnered with MLtwist to acquire a large scale video dataset capturing everyday commutes across regions of the United States.
- News
MLtwist Awarded $590K TSA Contract for Multi-Modal Labeling
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has awarded MLtwist a $590K contract for the labeling and processing of multimodal AI data.
2025
- Events
MLtwist Heads to CES 2026
The planet's biggest tech event is taking place from January 6-9, 2026 in Las Vegas. Meet us there if you are looking for AI data solutions! [email protected]
- Case study
Retail Company Uses MLtwist for Safe and Accurate Drone Delivery Vision
A retailer used MLtwist to build a drone-delivery vision dataset, with dense frame-level labels of people, pets, and objects in residential backyards.
- Case study
MLtwist Generates Synthetic Commute Data for Autonomous Driving
MLtwist generated synthetic commute data with realistic city routes, weather, and lighting so a technology company could train navigation models without identifiable location data.
- Case study
MLtwist Generates Synthetic Route Data for Utility Vehicles
MLtwist generated synthetic route data for autonomous utility trucks: frequent stops, reverse maneuvers, and curbside approaches in residential neighborhoods.
- Case study
How MLtwist Streamlined AI Data Processing for SAR-Based Ship Detection Models
A defense company used MLtwist to label thousands of SAR satellite images with tilted bounding boxes, sometimes more than 100 ships per image, and deliver them in its exact format.
- Case study
AI Tech Company Uses MLtwist to Train LLM for Proprietary Coding Language
A leading AI technology company has selected MLtwist tech + workforce to help them develop a large language model (LLM) to work with a coding language.
- Case study
How MLtwist Helped Candam Technologies Automate Waste Management
AI is helping to manage waste and recycling, but training ML models to recognize waste types requires processing large datasets. Recycling startup Candam uses MLtwist to sift through it all and speed up training.
- Events
Inside the AI Data Prep Playbook: Lessons from Overstock, Adobe & MLtwist
Check out our AI Data Prep Panel from the AI Data Readiness Forum.
- Case study
Checkpoint-screening data prep for aviation security
Sandia National Laboratories cut screening-data preparation from eight weeks to three.
- Case study
How MLtwist Is Transforming Data Processing for Insurtech
MLtwist provided an AI-powered solution that automated the extraction, labeling, and management of unstructured text data, drastically reducing processing time while maintaining high accuracy. Here’s how it changed the game.
- Case study
How Bobidi and MLtwist Delivered Faster AI Validation and Higher Quality at Lower Cost
An AI data validation company had a massive amount of data with 100K file transformations and an ambitious deadline to meet. They used MLtwist to get it done ahead of schedule and surpass accuracy targets while keeping the cost down.
- Case study
Defense Company Uses MLtwist for Large-Scale NLP on News Articles
A leading defense tech company contacted MLtwist to leverage its tech + its labeling experts to process unstructured data in the form of ten of thousands of English-language news articles to extract intelligence-relevant insights.
- Case study
How a Leading Genealogy Company Unlocks the Secrets of Historical Data with MLtwist
A leading genealogy company has harnessed the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to extract and structure historical data from millions of official records, connecting people across the world.
- Case study
How AdTech Uses AI and MLtwist to Apply Brand Safety Classifications
This company developed a product that employs a combination of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) to analyze digital content at a granular level. It assesses the suitability of text, images, video, and audio.
- Case study
MLtwist Empowers AdTech with AI-Powered Content Moderation for Brand Safety
A leading AdTech company turned to MLtwist to develop an advanced AI-powered content moderation system capable of detecting and flagging offensive content across multiple media formats.
- Events
Join Us for the AI Data Readiness Forum
Join leaders from Adobe, Google, Brex, Salesforce, Overstock, and more for a focused afternoon on making enterprise AI work—starting with your data.
- Case study
Defense Company Uses MLtwist for High-Precision Video Tracking
A defense company used MLtwist to track people, vehicles, and containers in drone SAR video, with frame-level annotations and up to 100+ boxes per frame.
- Events
Meet Us at Google Cloud Next ’25
We'll be in Las Vegas from April 9-11 for Google Cloud Next '25. Meet us there to talk about what's new in AI data preparation and making your data work for you!
- Insights
The AI Data Problem We're Not Talking About
AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute power. It’s data. With Stage 2 Capital, we explore what it really takes to solve AI’s data bottleneck—at scale.
2024
- Events
Born in Silicon Valley: Revolutionizing Data Preparation for Machine Learning
MLtwist CEO David Smith talks about his vision
- Events
Tech for America: What’s Ahead for Government Tech in 2025
Which trends are on track to shape government tech in 2025? We sat down with an expert panel including Microsoft, Google, the FBI.
- Events
Webinar: Navigating AI Data Complexity with Sandia National Laboratories
Getting data ready for AI is hard – according to Gartner, only 4% of companies say their data is AI-ready.
- News
MLtwist and Carahsoft Partner to Bring AI Data Pipeline Tech to the Public Sector
Powerful artificial intelligence solutions are now available to government agencies thanks to MLtwist.
- Events
Better Tech: Balancing Automation and Human Expertise in Data Ops
On the Better Tech podcast, Audrey Smith and host Peggy Tsai discuss how people and machines work together on data accuracy, quality, time, and cost.
- Events
AI Exponential Thinker: Data Operations for Scaled AI
MLtwist COO Audrey Smith talks with AI strategist Dr. Lobna Karoui about data operations for scaled AI, bias, inclusivity, and responsible AI.
- Insights
What Is a Video Annotation Tool?
Video annotation tools are a big part of a larger ecosystem of data labeling tools.
- News
Announcing the Ultimate Guide to AI Data Pipelines
AI data is a growing share of the $200 billion global data market. Learn what's involved with preparing it for AI and machine learning with our new guide!
- News
MLtwist Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace
Google Cloud Marketplace enterprise customers can now directly access MLtwist without additional budget justification or vendor approval.
- News
MLtwist AI Data Pipeline Technology to Support Stanford CS Research
MLtwist provided third-party annotation service, including AI data pipeline technology, in a research study recently published by Stanford School of Engineering’s Natural Language Processing Group.
- News
These Were the Biggest Stories of 2023
Accelerators, partnerships, and the use of MLtwist in research were just a few of the highlights from 2023. Here are the stories that made last year exceptional.
2023
- Events
Health AI Symposium: San Francisco UCSF December 6-7, 2023
"HealthAI Symposium," a French American Innovation event at UCSF.
- Events
David Smith speaking at Open Data Science Conference West – 2023
MLtwist CEO David Smith's ODSC West 2023 talk on generative AI data pipelines and the future of data orchestration, with a transcript.
- Events
David Smith Speaks at Open Data Science Conference West 2023
MLtwist founder David Smith recently spoke at the 2023 ODSC West in SF with a talk centered around generative AI and data pipelines.
- Insights
You are working in Data Ops for AI? Wait, what do you do again?
Audrey Smith on eight years in data operations for AI: what the role is, why it's underrated, and why data ops people are key to shipping AI products.
- Insights
What does a Data Ops role entail?
As we all know by now, a very good model with crappy data, will get you...well…a crappy model performance.
- Events
Humans of AI with Audrey Smith, COO of MLtwist
MLtwist COO Audrey Smith recently spoke to Humans of AI podcast about data pipelines for AI, data quality.
- News
Navigating the Path to Federal Contracts: A Closer Look at Palantir’s FedStart
Private sector AI development is critical to the future of defense – but how do SMEs comply with USDOD security standards?
- Events
AI Infrastructure Alliance: LLMs and the Generative AI Revolution
In September 2024, MLtwist participated in the AIIA’s event.
- Events
Audrey Smith to Speak at IEEE Conference on Cyberworlds
MLtwist Chief Operating Officer Audrey Smith will be a featured speaker at the IEEE Confernce on Cyberworlds on October 3.
- Insights
Using Large Language Models For Extract, Transform, And Load On AI Data : An MLtwist Brief
LLMs beneficial to a no-code ETL solution.
- Events
Join Us for AIIA’s LLM Event and Google for Startups Demo Day
On September 14, see what we've been working on lately with an AIIA event and a Google Accelerator Demo Day.
- News
Stage 2 Capital Selects MLtwist for 2023 Catalyst Cohort
Stage 2 Capital has selected MLtwist as one of 15 B2B software companies in its scale-focused 2023 Catalyst Cohort.
- News
MLtwist Selected for 2023 Google Startup Accelerator: Cloud Cohort
MLtwist is one of 12 North American startups selected for the first Google for Startups Accelerator: Cloud, a 10-week program with Google experts.
- Events
MLtwist Presents at Tech Summit 2023
At Tech Summit 2023 in San Francisco, Audrey Smith joined an AI panel and David Smith presented research on generative AI pipelines.
- News
Bobidi and MLtwist Deliver Deployment and Quality Gains through AI Data Pipeline Automation
Bobidi and MLtwist case study attains 50% cost savings and 90% faster project deployment.
- Insights
Data labeling operations in the context of AI
Audrey Smith joins Raghu Banda on the Extra AI podcast to discuss data labeling operations, data privacy, and AI model transparency.
- News
MLtwist Selected by Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence for ML Data Automation
MLtwist seamlessly automates ML data pipelines to deliver high quality data at scale.
2022
- Events
Audrey Smith podcast appearances throughout 2022
A roundup of MLtwist COO Audrey Smith's 2022 podcast appearances on data operations roles, AI verticals, and her path into data ops.
- Events
AI in Action E406: Audrey Smith, Chief Operating Officer at MLtwist
Scientists and engineers leverage MLtwist's deep Labeling Ops expertise
- Events
MLtwist Presents At Open Data Science Conference West 2022
MLtwist pitched at the AI Builders Startup Pitch at ODSC West 2022, showing how its platform improves the speed and quality of machine learning data.
- Insights
Data-Centric AI: Why This Trend is Here to Stay
Several months ago, MLtwist had the pleasure of participating in the TWIML AI panel on Data-Centric AI.
- Events
David Smith joins Future Fuzz Podcast
MLtwist CEO David Smith joins the Future Fuzz digital marketing podcast to talk about labeled data and how AI is changing advertising.
- Events
TWIML AI: Managing Data Labeling Ops for Success
Data labeling has exploded over the past few years and businesses are racing to catch up.
- News
MLtwist Joins Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program
MLtwist, which labels and prepares training data, has joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage program.
- News
MLtwist x Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
MLtwist is partnering with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Department of Energy on data tools that help researchers use fast-growing microscopy data.
- Events
MLtwist at Trade Winds Dubai
MLtwist has been selected by the US Department of Commerce to participate in Trade Winds Dubai. We will meet with companies within the UAE.
- News
MLtwist Welcomes Audrey Smith as COO
The industry veteran brings years of ML labeling operations experience with AI leaders such as Amazon.
- News
MLtwist Wins US Department of Energy Deal
MLtwist receives $198K to develop a platform for organizing, managing, and sharing ML data.
2021
- News
Investors Back MLtwist
MLtwist secures investment for future development from Village Global, Hike Ventures, and angel investors.
- Events
MLtwist Presents at Mobile World Congress
MLtwist presented at 4YFN Barcelona on June 20, 2021. The expo is the startup event of Mobile World Congress.
- Events
MLtwist Talks to Future Fuzz: How AdTech is Shaping Marketing
MLtwist talks with Justin Campbell of Future Fuzz about how machine learning insights get applied in ad tech, a nearly $600 billion industry.
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