This platform will help train AI algorithms for the military

After landing a contract with the U.S. Air Force in April, Labelbox announced May 20 that it is making its artificial intelligence training data platform available more widely to the federal government and intelligence community.

Labelbox offers a software platform by the same name that allows development teams to manage the data used to train machine learning algorithms. For instance, in order for a machine learning tool to successfully begin identifying missile launchers in satellite imagery, it needs to be fed hundreds or even millions of pre-labeled pictures identifying the objects it needs to identify. The more accurate training data is fed to the algorithm, the better it works. Some government machine learning projects need to process petabytes of data per day, the company says, a flow of data that can be overwhelming.