How AI Models Get Data From the Internet: A New Layer of AI Infrastructure
The AI boom demands data at industrial scale, but most of the web is out of reach for models: content is blocked, unstructured or locked behind paywalls. MIT Technology Review reports the emergence of a new infrastructure layer. Companies now specialize in sourcing, structuring and delivering web data to AI teams. It is a new niche between the open internet and LLMs.
AI-processed from MIT Technology Review; edited by Hamidun News
Neural networks and AI models need up-to-date data from the internet, but getting it in a ready-to-use form is extremely hard, even though the web holds information in abundance.
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