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RNS Number : 1713A  Sama  13 August 2024

Sama Expands Generative AI Solution Integrations for More Secure, Responsible
AI Development

Company's secure integrations now cover majority of the world's most popular
LLM providers, including Microsoft, Google and Amazon

SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ACCESSWIRE / August 13, 2024 / Sama
(https://pr.report/1gfe) , the leader in purpose-built, responsible enterprise
AI with agile data labeling for model development and supervised fine-tuning,
today announced new model integration offerings for some of the world's most
popular large language models (LLMs) as part of its Sama Generative AI (GenAI)
solution. With these developments, Sama can seamlessly access and retrieve
data from top open-source GenAI models and LLMs, then send it back through the
same protected pipeline. This not only reduces the risk of data exposure, but
makes it easier to add a human-in-the-loop (HITL) component to the model
lifecycle - crucial for more responsible AI development and deployment.

"Generative AI is at a pivotal point in its development. We are now wrestling
with larger questions about how to develop models more responsibly without
sacrificing quality or efficiency. Our new model integrations neatly solve
this issue by ensuring that data is transferred directly to our dedicated
workforce in secure facilities," said Duncan Curtis, SVP of AI product and
technology at Sama.

"We can then easily send our annotations to the model platform or an on-prem
model, depending on a client's needs, again increasing security and improving
efficiency. More responsibly developed AI is key to creating more ethical AI,
and we're proud to be playing a part in pushing this process forward."

Sama's platform can now integrate with a number of new model providers,
including but not limited to the following: Mistral, Microsoft, Amazon and
Databricks. These integrations join previous integrations with Cohere,
Anthropic, OpenAI and Inflection among other companies. For all providers,
Sama can evaluate both prompts and model responses, scoring and ranking them
across a variety of client-defined dimensions, such as coherence. These
integrations also support Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) evaluation for
improved accuracy and reliability of model output. Finally, direct data
transfer accelerates supervised fine-tuning, allowing companies to build on
these pre-trained LLMs to create models with knowledge bases specific to their
industry or business with the help of Sama prompt engineering.

Sama plans to further expand its integration capabilities to other API-driven
models in the near future. Its solutions are designed to scale to all project
sizes, including some of the largest open-source models in the world, and can
reduce project starting times by several weeks. The company's HITL approach
involves a vetted, experienced and diverse workforce of over 5,000 annotators
providing critical feedback loops to models to validate they are behaving to
the client's specific parameters. This feedback occurs during the entire model
development process, including data creation, supervised fine-tuning, LLM
optimization and ongoing model evaluation. By consistently providing this
feedback, the company helps clients develop their models in a more responsible
way. Sama is itself compliant with key regulatory directives and can help its
customers achieve similar compliance as a supplier. Furthermore, Sama's focus
on paying a living wage and providing benefits to its employees help promote a
more ethical AI supply chain.

All of Sama's services leverage SamaHub™, a collaborative workspace where
clients and team members can directly communicate on workflows and complete
reporting to track their project's progress. Sama's work is backed by
SamaAssure™, the industry's highest quality guarantee, which routinely
delivers a 98% first batch acceptance rate. Projects leverage SamaIQ™, a
combination of Human in the Loop assessments and proprietary algorithms, to
proactively surface additional insights into a model's vulnerabilities.

About Sama

Sama is a global leader in data annotation solutions for computer vision,
generative AI and large language models. Our solutions minimize the risk of
model failure and lower the total cost of ownership through an enterprise
ready ML-powered platform and SamaIQ™, actionable data insights uncovered by
proprietary algorithms and a highly skilled on-staff team of over 5,000 data
experts. 25% of Fortune 50 companies, including GM, Ford, Microsoft and
Google, trust Sama to help deliver industry-leading ML models.

Driven by a mission to expand opportunities for underserved individuals
through the digital economy, Sama is a certified B-Corp and has helped more
than 65,000 people lift themselves out of poverty. An MIT-led Randomized
Controlled Trial has validated its training and employment program. For more
information, visit www.sama.com (https://pr.report/1gff) .

Sama Media Contact:

Natalee Gibson, Songue PR

press@samasource.org

SOURCE: Sama

 

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