Hive is an American

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company offering

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models via

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s to enterprise customers. Hive uses around 700,000

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s to train data for its models through its Hive Work app. One of Hive's major offerings is to provide automated

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services.

Products

Hive is reported to have been engaged to provide content moderation services to social news aggregator

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-affiliated social network

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, and on online chat website

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, after its shutdown by content service providers in early 2021 due to a lack of content moderation, integrated with Hive and was allowed back in the

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. Hive's content moderation models have been leveraged widely in the

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industry, where the cost of human moderation is high. Hive's models have also been used in events such as the Super Bowl and

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, and its contextual advertising models used by

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and

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. Hive provides APIs to detect deepfakes and AI-generated artwork. In early 2023, Hive released a free demo text classifier intended to detect AI-generated text. Mark Hachman at ''

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'' rated Hive's classifier favorably and found it more reliable than

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's AI text classifier.

History

Hive was founded by Kevin Guo and Dmitriy Karpman, and in April 2021, announced $85M in new capital at a valuation of $2 billion.

References

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