Oxen.ai – Fast Unstructured Data Version Control
Hi HN! This is Greg, founder of https://oxen.ai. Oxen at it's core is a version control system built from the ground up optimized for machine learning data. Just like other VCS, Oxen can a building block for a lot of workflows. We are a couple ex-IBM Watson engineers who have seen the waves of AI and know the importance of matching the correct data to the correct model deployment in ML workflows. The commands are modeled one-for-one after git, but can handle large unstructured datasets of images, videos, audio, text, as well as tabular data. If you have a few minutes, go to…
Oxen.ai – Fast Unstructured Data Version Control launched on February 16, 2023 with 16 votes, #1,324 of 3,829 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
Oxen.ai is a version control system designed specifically for machine learning data, handling large unstructured datasets including images, videos, audio, and text files. Built by former IBM Watson engineers, it uses Git-like commands but is optimized for data workflows rather than code. Written in Rust with modern hashing algorithms, it can index hundreds of thousands of files quickly, making data collaboration as straightforward as code collaboration in traditional version control systems.
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From the sources
Lightning fast data version control system for large repositories of data. Feels like git, pushes and pulls like oxen. - Oxen-AI/Oxen
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN! This is Greg, founder of https://oxen.ai. Oxen at it's core is a version control system built from the ground up optimized for machine learning data. Just like other VCS, Oxen can a building block for a lot of workflows. We are a couple ex-IBM Watson engineers who have seen the waves of AI and know…
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