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as an open data science platform – makes it easier for Existing AI platforms often require a lot of expertise and
businesses to gain a real-time pulse on everything from experimentation to be effective. They also don’t help
market research to risk management. with the expensive and difficult preparation of data.
Fairhair.ai provides a fast-track to reap the benefits of
“We quickly realized our AI platform had far more AI and advanced insights by opening up access to our
potential, beyond Meltwater’s core products, to data and models organized in a knowledge graph,” said
democratize competitive insights created from real-time Aditya Jami, CTO and Head of AI at Meltwater.
online data. Fairhair.ai goes beyond Business
Intelligence by filling the gap between historic trends The expertise behind Fairhair.ai includes Meltwater’s
and real-time market indicators that allows to predict decades of experience collecting and analyzing web
what’s ahead with forward-looking insights – a practice data and content partnerships. The platform reflects
we call Outside Insight,” said Jorn Lyseggen, years of research and development from an
Meltwater’s founder and CEO.
experienced team of in-house engineers and data
“In spite of being the most valuable source for forward- scientists through a series of AI acquisitions. Supported
looking indicators, online data is the biggest blind spot by collaborations with top universities and research
today in corporate decision-making. Historically, online groups, such as Carnegie Mellon University and the
data has been hard to track and analyze in a systematic University of Oxford, Fairhair.ai is also informed by a
and rigorous way because of its sheer scale, plethora of Scientific Advisory Board, whose founding members –
data types, and its multitude of languages. Fairhair.ai Regina Barzilay (MIT), Georg Gottlob (Oxford
addresses many of these challenges and helps University), Jure Leskovec (Stanford University) and
companies analyze the noisy and messy web to better Eric Nyberg (Carnegie Mellon University) – are
understand their competitive landscape”, he explained. considered pioneers in fields of natural language
processing, information retrieval, web data extraction
Fairhair.ai gives developers the tools to leverage the and large-scale information network analysis.
platform’s library of pre-trained AI models or train their
own models to create advanced analytics fueled by the “Fairhair.ai not only includes access to a very large
world’s largest corpus of outside data. This data is knowledge graph that has been enriched by lots of
continuously mined by Meltwater’s privacy-by-design feature extractors, but significant analytical capabilities
knowledge graph for relations and facts about the with all of today’s best AI tools integrated together for
entities, such as acquisitions and product launches. researchers and students,” said Nyberg, director of the
Master's Program in Computational Data Science at
Furthermore, Fairhair.ai makes it easy to integrate this Carnegie Mellon University.
knowledge graph with any organization’s internal data
and existing models. For example, companies can Fairhair.ai is working closely with select Meltwater
integrate Fairhair.ai into enterprise risk management – Enterprise clients and academic partners ahead of
such as navigating complex supply chains. The making services available to the wider developer and
platform’s powerful knowledge graph can trace events data science community later this year. Developers and
through global supply chains, connecting suppliers, companies interested in trying Fairhair.ai before launch
products, and their dependencies. can apply here. ◊
Source: Meltwater

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