Sigma co-founder and CEO Daniel Tapias researched the speech recognition and natural language processing fields for over 18 years. In the '90s, he made great strides in a groundbreaking project: applying automatic speech recognition to telephone services.
As AI innovations started to impact everyday life, it became clear that AI models could only be as good as the data they were trained on. From Daniel's perspective, data quality had to be more than just accuracy — it should also involve creating balanced datasets with adequate coverage and following consistent annotation rules.
In 2008, Daniel partnered with Nuria Gómez and founded Sigma AI to help companies source, prepare, and annotate better data for better AI.
Over the years, Sigma AI has grown into a diverse, highly-trained workforce of 25K+ annotators, linguists, project managers, and subject matter experts spanning 5 continents and covering 500+ languages and dialects.