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data.world Announces Launch of AI Lab

data.world Announces Launch of AI Lab

data.world, a leading enterprise data catalog for modern data stacks, has recently announced the launch of data.world AI Lab, a first of its kind in the data catalog industry. The data.world AI Lab brings together partners, customers and academics to work collaboratively in utilizing the latest artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to enhance data team productivity through data catalog integrations.

Dr. Juan Sequeda, a data.world principal scientist and co-author of the book Designing and Building Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, will lead the AI Lab, with a primary focus on automating data discovery and governance through the use of data.world's patented knowledge graph foundation and AI tools, including GPT-3, OpenAI's large language model.

data.world customer WPP, a creative transformation company, has become the first to explore the new capabilities offered by the data.world AI Lab through an integration between its data catalog and GPT-3. With the help of data.world's knowledge graph foundation, WPP can now catalog any resource and open APIs that enable integration with those resources. This integration also allows for the utilization of powerful new features, such as

  • Use Case Inspiration: Providing valuable inspiration for people trying to gain insights from their data, suggesting use cases that can be addressed with specific datasets.
  • Recommendations for Datasets: Providing recommendations for which datasets may be utilized to meet certain use cases, making it easier for data consumers to obtain the required data to advance their business.
  • Metadata Enrichment: Delivering inferred summaries describing the datasets and inferred tags for datasets, hence accelerating data stewardship for new datasets.

The data.world AI Lab is available to partners and customers who wish to learn more about AI tools and knowledge graphs and how they can leverage them in their respective organizations. data.world remains neutral towards AI tools and recognizes that OpenAI's GPT-3 is the first of many generative AI algorithms. Customers and partners can learn more about the data.world AI Lab by visiting data.world/ailab.

About data.world

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, data.world is a modern enterprise data stack catalog providing a cloud-native SaaS platform with a consumer-grade user experience and a robust knowledge graph. Its platform enables enhanced data discovery, agile data governance, and actionable insights. Notably, data.world is a Certified B Corporation and public benefit corporation and features the world's largest collaborative open data community with over two million members, including ninety percent of the Fortune 500. Additionally, the company has sixty-two patents and has been recognized as one of Austin's Best Places to Work for seven consecutive years.

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