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annotation

[an-uh-tey-shuhn] / ˌæn əˈteɪ ʃən /


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India has positioned itself as a global middleman for the creation, processing and annotation of AI data.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

Prior to the layoff, the xAI’s data annotation team was one of the largest, with 1,500 full-time and contract staff members, which included AI tutors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025

It includes Nat Friedman, former boss of software development platform GitHub, Alexandr Wang of data annotation firm Scale AI and co-creators of OpenAI's models.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2025

Notably, an ancestry-biased mRNA isoform of SPSB2, likely driven by cross-population allele frequency differences in rs11064437, was found to be unannotated in canonical gene annotation.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024

Scrolling further down the screen, Charles came across a rather unusual annotation: “You didn’t really think we’d make it that easy, did you?”

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

Some of Pulte’s annotations might give pause to those already worried about him overseeing America’s intelligence community.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026

The spreadsheet he created was a mess of account numbers and annotations that only he could understand, Alice said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025

Some of the performers fans have travelled from other towns and cities to grab his old paperbacks, some of which contain annotations by Cave.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025

A voracious reader, Walger lost, among other treasured items, her vast book collection, which contained everything from contemporary fiction and Romantic poetry to treasured childhood books with her annotations scrawled in the margins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025

Ten years previously, Bobby’s slender volume Bobby Fischer’s Games of Chess was seen as a revealing glimpse into the teenager’s mind, but it was criticized for its sparse annotations.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady




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