Announcing Labelbox Alignerr Connect: Discover and hire proven AI experts

Access to the right AI talent is key to developing and training cutting-edge models. With a goal to deliver the industry’s most complete AI data factory, Labelbox is addressing this critical need for on-demand AI trainers with the launch of Labelbox Alignerr Connect.

Complementing our fully-managed labeling services, Alignerr Connect allows you to connect directly with expert AI talent. Quickly build and onboard domain experts with a proven track record of performing data labeling and model evaluation tasks. Connect these experts directly to your existing processes, pipelines, and tools.

Alignerr Connect allows AI teams to:

• Hire proven AI trainers: Access a network of domain experts with proven experience rating, evaluating, and labeling genAI data
• Access specific frontier intelligence: Select from rigorously vetted experts with deep domain expertise, frontier model intelligence, and experience partnering with human data teams
• Expand teams rapidly: Discover a global network of on-demand AI experts that are ready to work immediately
• Maintain flexibility and control: Integrate experts seamlessly into existing workflows, pipelines, and tools

Introducing Labelbox Alignerr Connect

Alignerr Connect provides companies with direct access to Alignerrs, a community of highly skilled professionals specializing in AI model evaluation, data labeling, and data generation. These experts are rigorously vetted and possess proven experience in a training AI models and specific subject matter expertise.

Alignerr Connect strives to go beyond the offerings of other talent sourcing companies. Often, other workforce vendors focus on a broad range of talent or have limited visibility into the experts ability to generate valuable training data and properly evaluate AI models. 

As a result of our long history of supporting advanced data rating and labeling tasks, we uniquely bring learnings from years of customer engagements and best practices in evaluating the quality of data. These insights into how to build a high-quality data factory allow us to differentiate Alignerr Connect in the following ways:

• Unparalleled insights: Screen Alignerrs based on interview transcripts, assessment scores, and advanced metrics from past projects, like rework rate and efficiency, to build high-impact teams. Use the detailed metrics to ensure your teams are ready to create high-quality data.

• Rigorous vetting: Access the top 3% of data talent. We provide access to a highly exclusive network of data experts. With an acceptance rate lower than Harvard, you can trust that our subject matter experts can deliver exceptional results to advance and differentiate your AI projects. We use a combination of human vetting and AI-assisted interviews to quickly and exhaustively review candidates. 
• Custom sourcing: Need specialized expertise? Alignerr Connect goes beyond general AI tasks. We can source and screen custom talent to match your specific domain and project needs, ensuring you have the right experts for the job. Contact us today to discuss your needs. 

Seamless extension of the Labelbox Data Factory

Labelbox has a 6 year history of providing powerful software and tooling for companies in need of high-quality data for ML and AI projects. Driven by the emergence of LLMs and generative AI over the past year, we have rapidly expanded our offerings to include fully-managed services through Labelbox labeling services. These services combine our own project managers and operational experience with expert Alignerrs to generate data and to assist with AI alignment, refinement, and improvement. 

Alignerr Connect complements our services and platform offerings with a new, flexible option that allows organizations to hire Alignerrs directly. This is a perfect option for organizations that need help staffing an existing in-house data factory. These companies want to be hands-on in the day-to-day management and operations of their labeling and rating projects.  

With Alignerr Connect, Labelbox is now uniquely positioned as the only vendor to offer a comprehensive suite of solutions to help companies build, operate, or staff their AI data factory in a manner that best aligns with their needs and resources. 

Labelbox offers customers the following solutions: 

• Labelbox platform: A do-it-yourself approach for companies building their own data factory who to control data labeling operations and staffing.
• Labeling services: A fully managed service for on-demand, high-quality labeled data where the company wants to outsource operations and labeling.
• Alignerr Connect: An integrated marketplace to discover and hire expert AI trainers to join a company's existing processes, pipelines, and tools.

This comprehensive offering allows companies to tailor their approach to AI development based on their specific needs and resources.

Ideogram achieves SOTA result in text-to-image leaderboard thanks in part to Alignerr Connect

As we shared during the initial launch, we launched the Labelbox Leaderboards to address some of the most pressing challenges with AI model evaluation. Our leaderboards use expert human evaluations and a scientific approach to ranking in order to measure subjective qualities like realism and preference across multimodal image, audio, and video models. 

In our most recent updates, Ideogram, a Labelbox Alignerr Connect customer, took the top spot for overall preference. Here's what they had to say about their experience, and you can see the impact it had in the leaderboard results:

"We used Alignerr Connect to quickly build an expert data labeling team using our custom screening criteria to generate frontier data for our industry-leading models. Direct access to AI trainers combined with operational management gives us a critical advantage in producing exceptional data."

Mohammad Norouzi, CEO, Ideogram

Dig into the details of how the Ideogram model performed in our leaderboard.

Get started today with finding proven domain experts

Labelbox Alignerr Connect is poised to revolutionize how companies access and leverage AI talent. By connecting businesses with highly skilled domain experts, Labelbox is empowering organizations to accelerate their AI initiatives, overcome talent barriers, and drive innovation.

Contact us to get started today with Alignerr Connect!