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AI · December 11, 2017

Prodigy

Radically efficient machine teaching

Prodigy launched on December 11, 2017 with 156 votes, #190 of 2,482 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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What it does

Prodigy is a new annotation tool for creating training and evaluation data for machine learning models. It comes with an extensible, self-hosted back-end, active learning-powered models that update as you annotate, and a modern web application that helps you stay focused.

A downloadable annotation tool for LLMs, NLP and computer vision tasks such as named entity recognition, text classification, object detection, image segmentation, evaluation and more.

Prodigy is an extensible annotation tool that gives you a new way to build custom AI systems. Define your classification scheme with real-world examples rather than just prompts, and let powerful models assist – no machine learning experience required. Prodigy runs entirely under your control, making it suitable for even the strictest privacy requirements. You can download it and run it locally right out of the box, or adapt it to serve your infrastructure needs. The models you produce are yours as well, with absolutely no lock-in. Prodigy lets you define fully custom data feeds and interfaces, letting the computer work instead of the human. By breaking down tasks into smaller pieces and…from prodi.gy

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