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Thank you @JohnKim. Nice read. Some excerpts from the article:

Delivery capabilities for vertical fields are also a strategic investment direction for Appen. After general knowledge, professional knowledge is the next key development area for big models. Based on the existing vertical field capabilities, Appen has opened up nine big model vertical field teams in 2024, including finance, law, music, multilingual, literature, TTS, mathematics, medical, and code, which are specifically responsible for developing and cultivating compound talents in these vertical fields, as well as undertaking corresponding data service projects.

What are compound talents for vertical fields? Simply put, it means cultivating talents in traditional vertical fields, such as finance, law, medicine, music, etc., so that talents in professional fields can understand technologies and project management practices such as AI and big models, AI data and AI data project delivery, and combine professional field knowledge with AI and data project delivery, so as to better serve customers' big models for various vertical field data needs. These professionals can not only complete higher quality and more professional data annotation, but also meet the consistency requirements of big model reasoning from a professional logic perspective.

The medical field is Appen China's traditional advantage field. Appen has been in the field of medical AI for nearly 5 years and is the earliest company in China to invest large-scale in the field of medical AI. Appen established a data project delivery team composed of medical professionals in 2021. The person in charge of delivery project management is a compound talent with a medical background and AI data project management experience. Appen's medical group has more than 500 full-time staff and a professional crowdsourcing team of 1,000 people, covering majors such as clinical medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese and Western medicine, nursing, pharmacy, psychology, and nutrition, basically covering all majors and disciplines in the field of big health. At present, the leading domestic medical big model companies are all Appen's customers. So far, Appen has delivered more than 500 medical projects and more than 10 million pieces of data to more than 30 domestic customers.

Since the second half of 2023, Aopeng China has started to build a financial big model business team. Currently, there are more than 400 full-time employees with financial backgrounds, of which 99% have a bachelor's degree or above in finance, economics or accounting, and 70% have fund practitioner qualifications or securities practitioner qualifications. Aopeng's financial delivery management team has a background in traditional financial industry experts and AI big data project management capabilities, which can support risk management, data analysis, and financial product management application development. The business team is currently continuing to reserve resources in the financial field in advance, which can quickly respond to new customer business needs. The team is also very complete in various qualifications for data security compliance/quality system certification.

In 2024, Appen achieved significant business growth and customer recognition in the field of code big models, with more than 120 full-time technical personnel covering mainstream programming languages and providing diversified service models. Appen's big models have demonstrated strong capabilities in code generation, debugging and optimization, helping customers significantly reduce development costs and time. Appen continues to accumulate high-quality, industry-specific code data sets, focusing on the diversity and comprehensiveness of data sets to ensure the generalization capabilities of code models in a variety of programming scenarios and task types. In 2024, Appen gradually evolved from code data annotation to business scenarios such as capability assessment, vertical fields, operation and maintenance, testing, UI, etc., and the number of business personnel for code big models has nearly doubled.

In addition, Aopen has abundant professional talent resources in all vertical fields of big models: in the legal field, it has professional legal talents covering core capabilities such as legal retrieval, court trials, and risk control system construction; in the multilingual field, the team covers 200+ languages and has rich experience in multilingual project delivery; in the music field, it has 500+ part-time music professionals to support tasks such as composition, annotation, and score making; in the TTS field, it has TTS collection experience in dozens of countries, and recording studios cover major cities across the country; in the literature field, team members all have a deep understanding and appreciation of literature, supporting the development of big models in cross-domain multimodal fusion and innovation, emotional interaction, and intelligent recommendation systems... Relying on its strong professional team and rich experience, Aopen continues to provide high-quality data

It is worth mentioning that in terms of professional talent recruitment, Aopen not only has a strong full-time recruitment team for various vertical fields, but also has high-security bases deployed in Wuxi, Dalian, Chongqing in China, and overseas in the Philippines, Vietnam, India, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, the United States, etc. It also has unique crowdsourcing resources at home and abroad and 2,000+ supplier partner channels. It