Multimodal Company in 2026 for AI Data

The Multimodal Company Bottleneck

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Quality Decay

In complex multimodal datasets, quality decay manifests as subtly misaligned modalities—such as audio transcripts that lag behind video frames or bounding boxes that drift in 3D space. When standard labeling providers attempt to scale, inter-annotator agreement often plummets below 70%, introducing toxic noise into your foundation models. Without rigorous, scholar-grade QA and specialized multimodal tooling, these errors propagate through complex neural networks, devastating your model's reasoning capabilities. Relying on an unspecialized vendor ensures your expensive compute is wasted on deciphering low-fidelity, poorly aligned training signals.

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Volume Walls

Building a frontier multimodal AI requires ingesting petabytes of varied data. Many organizations hit severe volume walls because traditional labeling vendors max out at exceptionally low capacities for heavy formats like 4D point clouds or high-resolution video. When pipelines bottleneck at just a few thousand files a week, your development cycle stalls entirely. You need a partner capable of handling up to 500 files per day per annotator, scaling effortlessly to millions of assets without sacrificing the intricate detail required for complex interleaved data pairing.

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Compliance Friction

Sourcing real-world video, audio, and spatial data introduces monumental privacy and licensing risks. Compliance friction grinds projects to an absolute halt when datasets contain unredacted faces, copyrighted audio tracks, or untracked IP origins. If a vendor cannot provide full IP provenance, your multi-million dollar model is instantly exposed to severe legal liabilities and potential takedown mandates. Navigating GDPR and CCPA regulations across 50+ countries requires a secure, heavily audited infrastructure—something generic crowd-sourcing platforms consistently fail to provide for high-stakes enterprise AI teams.

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Interleaved Text & Image Dataset Generation

As a premier multimodal company, we excel at producing interleaved text and image datasets crucial for training next-generation vision-language models. Our global workforce accurately pairs high-resolution imagery with detailed, dense captions, ensuring zero copyright risk throughout the pipeline. We handle complex spatial reasoning tasks, chart interpretation, and visual QA with 99% accuracy. By rigorously cross-referencing visual elements with textual descriptions, we provide the foundational data required for advanced reasoning. We seamlessly process millions of multimodal pairs to feed your frontier models precisely what they need.

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Video Spatial and Temporal Reasoning

Training models to understand dynamic scenes requires unparalleled precision in video spatial reasoning. We process long-form and short-form video content, providing precise temporal tagging, object tracking, and action categorization across thousands of continuous frames. Our custom Abaka Forge platform allows annotators to efficiently map out intricate human-object interactions, ensuring your model learns seamless temporal continuity. Whether for autonomous driving workflows or advanced embodied AI, we deliver meticulously synchronized video datasets that empower your models to interpret and react to reality accurately.

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Multilingual Audio Transcription and Alignment

To build a truly global multimodal system, high-fidelity audio data is completely non-negotiable. Our specialized teams across 50+ countries transcribe, translate, and temporally align audio clips with corresponding text and video tracks. We support a vast array of languages and dialects, ensuring your speech-to-text and text-to-speech models perform flawlessly across diverse demographics. From capturing nuanced phonetic details to executing precise timestamp alignment, our stringent SOC 2 compliant pipelines guarantee that your audio datasets are perfectly secure, highly accurate, and ready for deployment.

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3D Point Cloud and LiDAR Annotation

Embodied AI and autonomous systems depend heavily on accurate 3D spatial representations. We provide comprehensive 3D point cloud and LiDAR annotation services, utilizing advanced sensor fusion techniques to pair 3D scans seamlessly with 2D camera feeds. Our expert annotators handle incredibly complex geometries, delivering precise cuboids, semantic segmentation, and object tracking in three-dimensional space. By leveraging our purpose-built platform, we accelerate the processing of dense 3D datasets, significantly reducing your time-to-market while maintaining the absolute highest standard of spatial fidelity.

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Multimodal RLHF and Human Preference Tuning

Aligning multimodal models with human intent requires specialized reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). Our scholar-grade network evaluates complex outputs—such as generated images accompanying synthesized text or video responses to user prompts—grading them on factuality, safety, and alignment. We meticulously construct preference ranking datasets that teach your frontier models exactly how to weigh different modalities appropriately. Through rigorous, multi-layer QA workflows, we ensure that your AI avoids harmful bias and hallucination, delivering safe, reliable, and nuanced multimodal interactions.

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IoT and Advanced Sensor Fusion Pipelines

Modern multimodal AI often extends beyond traditional media to encompass IoT sensor data, radar, and advanced telemetry. We specialize in gathering and annotating synchronized multi-sensor data, ensuring pristine temporal alignment across highly disparate inputs. By combining LiDAR, high-speed camera streams, and localized IoT metrics, we provide the comprehensive situational awareness necessary for robotics and industrial AI. Our pipelines effortlessly handle the vast throughput required for sensor fusion, delivering curated, timestamped, and perfectly tagged datasets that drive the future of autonomous systems.

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360-Degree Real-World Data Collection

When off-the-shelf data falls short, our on-demand custom capture pods deploy globally to source pristine, multimodal assets. We orchestrate comprehensive 360-degree real-world capture, seamlessly gathering text, image, video, and audio in targeted environments. Every asset is pre-filtered, curated, timestamped, and rigorously checked for quality, ensuring exactly zero copyright risk. Whether you require specific demographic representation or unique environmental lighting conditions, our globally distributed network securely captures the precise foundational intelligence needed to differentiate your proprietary multimodal models.

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Rigorous Multimodal Model Evaluation

Deploying a multimodal system requires comprehensive testing against rigorous objective benchmarks and subjective human evaluations. We offer an extensive 6-dimensional evaluation framework that stress-tests your model's capabilities across text, vision, and audio interactions. Our dedicated red-teaming units aggressively probe for safety, bias, and robustness, utilizing a sophisticated matrix to evaluate generation, reasoning, and tool calling. By identifying subtle cross-modality failure modes before deployment, we guarantee that your systems perform reliably in the wild, safeguarding your brand's reputation and your users' trust.

Why Outsource to a Multimodal Company

01

Faster Delivery

Building an internal pipeline for complex interleaved data can delay your roadmap by months. By outsourcing to Abaka AI, you immediately access 1M+ vetted annotators and custom tooling. This rapid mobilization slashes preprocessing times by up to 70%, allowing your engineering team to focus entirely on model architecture. We ensure your massive multimodal datasets are delivered on time, every time.

02

Direct Savings

Managing a globally distributed, high-quality data workforce internally requires monumental overhead in hiring, QA, and tool development. Partnering with a proven multimodal company shifts this massive fixed cost into a flexible, predictable operational expense. We offer highly competitive, transparent pricing, meaning you only pay for the exact volume of high-fidelity data you require to maximize your compute budget.

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Risk Reduction

Processing varied inputs like real-world video and audio carries immense legal and compliance risks. Abaka AI completely mitigates these threats through strictly segregated, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliant pipelines. We provide full IP provenance and 0% copyright risk on all collected data, ensuring your proprietary model is fully insulated from costly legal challenges and privacy violations.

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Elastic Scalability

Training frontier models involves unpredictable spikes in data requirements. When you require a sudden pivot to analyze 4D point clouds or millions of image-text pairs, our network seamlessly scales to match your demand. We deploy dedicated capture pods and expand annotator pools instantaneously, preventing pipeline bottlenecks without ever compromising our strict 99% accuracy guarantee.

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Domain Expertise

Multimodal data is inherently complex, requiring annotators who understand both the subject matter and the intricate nuances of spatial-temporal alignment. We utilize a scholar-network spanning coding, medicine, and mathematics to review complex visual and textual tasks. This deep domain expertise ensures your models learn accurate, nuanced reasoning rather than memorizing superficial noise.

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Innovation Velocity

The frontier of AI moves at breakneck speed. Attempting to build proprietary data collection platforms from scratch drastically slows your innovation cycle. By leveraging our Abaka Forge platform and extensive pre-built datasets, your team dramatically accelerates iteration loops. This continuous influx of high-quality data guarantees you maintain a decisive competitive advantage in the rapidly evolving multimodal landscape.

Industries We Serve

Automotive

The push toward full autonomy relies on flawless interpretation of complex, dynamic environments. We provide tier-1 autonomous driving programs with perfectly synchronized LiDAR, radar, and camera fusion datasets. By meticulously annotating lane markers, pedestrians, and vehicular behavior across varied weather conditions, we empower your self-driving models to navigate real-world chaos safely.

GenAI / Foundation Models

Frontier labs building next-generation GenAI require massive, impeccably clean datasets across every modality. We supply interleaved image-text pairs, long-form video reasoning tasks, and nuanced human preference RLHF data. Our zero-copyright-risk pipelines feed your foundation models the vast, high-fidelity intelligence needed to unlock advanced emergent capabilities and complex cross-modal reasoning.

Embodied AI / Robotics

Physical robots must interpret and react to 3D spaces in real time. We support embodied AI initiatives by delivering dense 3D point cloud segmentation, video spatial reasoning, and custom RL environment feedback. Our precise annotations enable robotic agents to master complex human-computer interactions and physical manipulations within dynamic, unpredictable real-world environments.

Healthcare

Medical AI requires extreme precision when parsing multimodal diagnostics. We assist healthcare pioneers by annotating complex medical imagery, transcribing patient-doctor audio, and extracting entities from clinical text. Utilizing our specialized medical scholar network, we ensure strict privacy compliance and absolute accuracy, accelerating the development of life-saving diagnostic and predictive models.

Retail

Modern retail thrives on seamless offline-to-online customer experiences. We help retail giants train checkout-free store algorithms, visual search engines, and highly responsive customer service chatbots. By annotating in-store CCTV video, product imagery, and voice queries, we provide the multimodal foundation necessary to personalize shopping experiences and optimize massive inventory tracking.

Finance

Financial institutions are deploying multimodal AI to detect fraud and automate document processing. We deliver highly accurate extraction of data from scanned financial documents, paired with audio analysis of customer service calls. Our strictly segregated secure pipelines guarantee that sensitive financial information remains completely protected while your models learn to identify complex fraud patterns.

Geospatial

Climate monitoring, urban planning, and logistics depend on accurate aerial and satellite imagery analysis. We process massive geospatial datasets, combining high-resolution visual feeds with complex metadata. Our annotators perform precise semantic segmentation on vast topographies, empowering your models to detect subtle environmental changes and optimize global supply chain routing.

Security / Defense

National security and defense operations demand unshakeable reliability from their AI systems. We process secure, multi-sensor data streams including thermal imaging, drone video feeds, and intercepted audio. Operating under strict NDAs and air-gapped security protocols, we deliver the meticulously verified intelligence required for threat detection and real-time situational awareness.

Agriculture / Industrial

Smart farming and industrial automation rely on the continuous monitoring of physical assets. We annotate multispectral drone imagery to assess crop health and process acoustic data for predictive machinery maintenance. By delivering robust, multi-sensor training data, we enable your agricultural and industrial models to maximize yield and minimize costly, unexpected downtime.

How It Works

1) Day 0–3 — Scoping and Pipeline Integration

We begin by deeply analyzing your multimodal data requirements. Our experts design a custom workflow, define exact annotation guidelines for your specific formats—whether video, 3D, or interleaved text—and securely integrate our Abaka Forge platform with your existing infrastructure via strict, compliant API gateways.

2) Week 1–2 — Pilot Annotation and Calibration

We launch a targeted pilot phase using a specialized subset of our scholar-grade workforce. This initial batch of multimodal data is annotated, subjected to rigorous multi-layer QA, and delivered for your review. We calibrate our approach based on your direct feedback to guarantee flawless alignment and absolute precision.

3) Week 2–3 — Full-Scale Production Launch

Upon pilot approval, we immediately unlock elastic scalability. We ramp up processing to a maximum throughput of 500 files per day per annotator, seamlessly handling massive volumes of complex multimodal assets. Our automated quality checks and human-in-the-loop verifications run continuously to strictly maintain our 99% accuracy standard.

4) Ongoing — Continuous Quality Assurance

As data flows through our secure pipelines, our specialized reviewers constantly monitor for drift, edge cases, and cross-modality misalignments. We employ sophisticated model-as-judge frameworks paired perfectly with intensive human evaluation to ensure the intelligence feeding your frontier AI remains pristine and consistently reliable over time.

5) Weekly — Comprehensive Reporting and Delivery

You receive fully verified, training-ready datasets delivered securely to your preferred environment on a weekly basis. We provide transparent, granular reports detailing throughput metrics, inter-annotator agreement scores, and compliance tracking, giving you total visibility and unshakeable confidence in your multimodal data supply chain.

Modality & Format Coverage

As a leading multimodal company, we utilize the proprietary Abaka Forge platform to process every data format with unparalleled accuracy. Explore our comprehensive coverage across text, vision, spatial, and audio domains to drastically accelerate your AI development.

Modality	Annotation Types	Tools	Output Formats
Text	Entity Extraction, Sentiment Analysis, Intent Classification, Dense Captioning	Abaka Forge	JSON, CSV, XML, TXT
LLM RLHF	Human Preference Ranking, Multi-turn QA, Factuality Checking, Bias Auditing	Abaka Forge	JSONL, Parquet, Arrow
Image	2D Bounding Boxes, Semantic Segmentation, Keypoint Annotation, Polygon Masking	Abaka Forge	COCO, Pascal VOC, YOLO, TFRecord
Video	Temporal Tagging, Action Recognition, Object Tracking, Spatial-Temporal Bounding	Abaka Forge	MP4, AVI, Frame-level JSON, XML
3D/4D Point Cloud	3D Cuboids, Semantic Segmentation, Object Tracking, Scene Flow Analysis	Abaka Forge	PCD, BIN, JSON, OBJ
LiDAR + Camera fusion	Sensor Alignment, Cross-modal Calibration, Fusion Tracking, Depth Mapping	Abaka Forge	ROS Bag, JSON, custom binary
Audio	Multilingual Transcription, Speaker Diarization, Emotion Recognition, Timestamp Alignment	Abaka Forge	WAV, MP3, TextGrid, JSON

Success Story

A frontier model lab building next-gen vision-language models

Challenge

The team was developing a cutting-edge multimodal assistant designed to seamlessly interpret dynamic video, interleaved text, and complex spatial audio. However, their internal data operations hit massive volume walls early on. They struggled to maintain exact temporal alignment between audio transcripts and rapidly shifting video frames, leading to severe quality decay and model hallucination. Existing generic labeling vendors lacked the sophisticated tooling required to process 4D spatial data, resulting in a 70% drop in inter-annotator agreement and threatening to derail their multimillion-dollar training schedule entirely.

Approach

Partnering with Abaka AI as their dedicated multimodal company, the lab rapidly integrated our highly robust Abaka Forge platform. We deployed a specialized team of over 1,500 domain-expert annotators to strictly process the complex sensor fusion data. Utilizing our advanced temporal tagging and multi-layer QA workflows, we completely eliminated cross-modality drift. Furthermore, we executed comprehensive 360-degree real-world capture to fill critical demographic and environmental gaps, ensuring the resulting dataset carried absolutely 0% copyright risk while adhering strictly to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 standard protocols.

Results

The transformation in multimodal model performance was immediate and highly quantifiable. By leveraging our elastically scalable workforce, the lab achieved a 70% reduction in data preprocessing time, massively accelerating their iteration cycles. We securely processed and delivered over 5 million precisely aligned multimodal asset pairs in just three months. The model’s spatial reasoning and video-audio alignment accuracy surged, consistently scoring 99% on rigorous internal benchmarks. This flawless data foundation allowed the frontier lab to successfully launch their flagship vision-language model a full quarter ahead of schedule.

5M+

Multimodal assets perfectly aligned and processed

70%

Reduction in internal data preprocessing time

99%

Guaranteed accuracy across all cross-modal annotations

By the Numbers

2019

Founded — trustworthy data partner for frontier AI

1,000+

Enterprise and research customers worldwide

1M+

Vertically specialized annotators globally

0%

Copyright risk on completely collected data

What Customers Say

Abaka AI is the only multimodal company we trust to securely handle our complex interleaved datasets. Their exceptional ability to precisely align text, image, and video components at scale without ever sacrificing quality is entirely unmatched in the industry today.

Director of Applied MLEnterprise Robotics Company

Scaling our new vision-language model required massive amounts of perfectly annotated multi-sensor data. Abaka provided the exact elastic scalability and specialized proprietary tooling we needed, miraculously cutting our preprocessing time by 70%.

Head of AI ResearchFrontier Model Lab

The extreme domain expertise Abaka brings to complex 3D point cloud and LiDAR annotation is incredible. They successfully delivered exceptionally clean, temporally aligned spatial datasets that significantly advanced our entire autonomous navigation framework.

VP of EngineeringTier-1 Autonomous Driving Program

Working closely with Abaka AI completely eliminated our internal compliance friction. Their SOC 2 certified pipelines and strict 0% copyright risk guarantee gave our team total peace of mind when processing highly sensitive audio and video assets.

Chief Data OfficerGlobal Healthcare Enterprise

Why Choose Abaka

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Uncompromising Security and Compliance

Enterprise AI requires ironclad data protection, especially when handling sensitive multimodal inputs like real-world video and audio. Abaka AI operates strictly under SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications, utilizing segregated secure pipelines to ensure absolute confidentiality. We offer full IP provenance and a 0% copyright risk guarantee on all collected data, meaning you can train your frontier models with total confidence, knowing your intellectual property is safeguarded against all legal and privacy liabilities.

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1M+ Vetted Global Experts

We maintain a vast, globally distributed network of over one million vertically specialized annotators across 50+ countries. This allows us to rapidly source native speakers and elite domain experts, guaranteeing unparalleled accuracy in every modality.

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Proprietary Forge Tooling

Our Abaka Forge platform is purpose-built for extremely complex multimodal data. It significantly accelerates collection, cleaning, and annotation by 50x through large-model automation, easily handling massive file types like LiDAR and dense 4D point clouds.

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Guaranteed 99% Accuracy

Quality decay can entirely destroy a multi-million dollar model. We employ incredibly stringent multi-layer QA workflows and scholar-grade reviewers to absolutely guarantee 99% accuracy across all text, audio, image, and video annotations, ensuring your AI learns only from the highest fidelity signals available.

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True Partner, Never a Competitor

Unlike some data vendors, we are a trustworthy data partner for frontier AI. We never build models that compete with you. Your proprietary data remains exclusively yours—never repurposed, resold, or shared—strictly protecting your long-term competitive advantage.

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Elastic Scalability for Petabyte Workloads

Frontier AI development strongly demands the ability to ingest petabytes of data rapidly. Our self-funded, highly optimized infrastructure effortlessly scales to flawlessly handle massive volume spikes. With a proven maximum throughput of 500 files per day per annotator, we completely shatter traditional volume walls, ensuring your complex multimodal training runs never stall due to unexpected pipeline bottlenecks.

Frequently Asked Questions

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How much do multimodal data services cost?

Our pricing is highly transparent and extremely competitive, meticulously designed to maximize your compute budget. For off-the-shelf multimodal datasets, we offer an Image+Text Pair at $2.8 and Stock Video at $0.1 per unit. For entirely custom annotation, our hourly rates range from $6/hr for Dense Captioning to $18/hr for complex LLM Math/Coding tasks. We also utilize Abaka Forge platform credits at $0.20 USD each, ensuring you only pay for the exact volume and complexity of data your model actually requires.

How quickly can you scale up a data collection project?

We mobilize extremely fast to fiercely prevent any pipeline bottlenecks. Initial scoping and secure API integration take just Day 0–3, immediately followed by a customized pilot phase in Week 1–2. By Week 2–3, we reliably launch into full-scale production, seamlessly processing up to 500 files per day per annotator. This exceptionally rapid deployment strategy frequently results in a documented 70% preprocessing time reduction for our enterprise partners.

What multimodal formats do you support?

We rigorously cover the entire spectrum of multimodal AI requirements. Our specialized teams and custom tooling smoothly handle interleaved Text and Image, complex long-form Video, dense 3D/4D Point Clouds, advanced LiDAR + Camera fusion, and robust multilingual Audio. We seamlessly output in all major formats including JSON, COCO, TFRecord, ROS Bag, and Arrow, strictly ensuring immediate, frictionless compatibility with your proprietary training environment.

How do you guarantee accuracy across diverse data types?

We guarantee 99% accuracy through incredibly strict, multi-layer quality assurance workflows. We seamlessly deploy a global scholar-network of elite experts in mathematics, coding, and medicine to heavily review complex tasks. Every single asset is subjected to rigorous human-in-the-loop verification and advanced automated model-as-judge evaluations within our Abaka Forge platform to comprehensively eliminate all subtle cross-modality errors.

Is my proprietary data secure during annotation?

Absolutely. Ironclad security is foundational to our entire operations. We are fully SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliant, securely utilizing strictly segregated secure pipelines and air-gapped infrastructure where highly necessary. We robustly operate under extremely strict NDAs and ensure that your proprietary multimodal data is never exposed, shared, or dangerously compromised during the global annotation process.

Can you collect and annotate data in multiple languages?

Yes. We possess an incredibly vast, globally distributed workforce of over 1M+ vertically specialized annotators aggressively spanning 50+ countries. This massive network expertly allows us to directly source native speakers for highly nuanced multilingual audio transcription, localized text translation, and complex localized human preference RLHF tuning, ensuring your models perform flawlessly on a truly global scale.

How does Abaka AI differ from standard crowd-sourcing platforms?

Standard crowd platforms severely struggle with the complex spatial-temporal alignment strongly required for multimodal data, very often leading to severe quality decay. We intelligently provide a fully managed service securely utilizing a highly vetted scholar-grade workforce, completely proprietary 3D/Video tooling, and incredibly stringent QA. Furthermore, we are completely self-funded, meaning we absolutely never repurpose your collected data to build competing AI models.

How do you handle changes to annotation guidelines mid-project?

We heavily build elite elastic scalability and agility into every single workflow. If your advanced model requires a sudden pivot in prompt constraints or spatial bounding box parameters, our dedicated project managers will swiftly update the exact guidelines within the Abaka Forge platform. We seamlessly retrain our highly specialized annotator pods entirely on the fly, practically ensuring zero disruption to your extremely critical continuous delivery schedule.

Do you offer a pilot phase before full-scale production?

Yes, a remarkably rigorous pilot phase is highly integral to our standard 'How It Works' process. During Week 1–2 of the engagement, we precisely process a strictly targeted subset of your data to completely calibrate our pipelines and heavily align precisely with your exact quality expectations. Full-scale production only strictly commences once you are absolutely 100% satisfied with the highly verified pilot outcomes.

Who owns the intellectual property of the collected data?

You effortlessly retain total, uncompromised ownership. We securely provide full IP provenance on absolutely every collected asset, definitively guaranteeing 0% copyright risk. Your critical multimodal data is exclusively yours—we strictly never resell, wildly repurpose, or use it to train our own foundation models, effectively ensuring your massive proprietary advantage perfectly remains securely in-house.

Do we need to provide our own annotation software?

No, you do not need to supply any software at all. We seamlessly utilize our proprietary Abaka Forge platform, a robust all-in-one system expertly designed specifically for collection, heavy cleaning, annotation, and advanced training of complex multimodal data. It is up to 50x faster precisely via large-model automation and easily supports everything entirely from nuanced RLHF to dense LiDAR without clunky third-party integrations.

What is the minimum project size you accept?

We strategically partner with an incredibly wide range of highly demanding clients, seamlessly from specialized frontier labs to massive enterprise AI teams. While our robust infrastructure is expertly built to securely handle petabytes of data and elastically scale up to millions of complex assets, we highly tailor our engagements to directly fit your highly specific needs. Please deeply talk to an expert to immediately discuss a custom pilot accurately tailored to your current exact volume requirements.

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