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By Ron Miller
December 7, 2023
Long before most of us were thinking about large language models, DataCebo co-founders Kalyan Veeramachaneni and Neha Patki were creating an open source library called Synthetic Data Vault or SDV for short. The company’s roots go back to 2016 when both were working in the MIT Data to AI Lab. They had a notion that […]
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