Data acquisition strategies for AI start-ups in 2024Back in 2016, I came across a prescient guide on data acquisition strategies for AI startups written by Moritz Mueller-Freitag, then co-founder of Twenty Billion Neurons (TwentyBN): We quickly became good friends and explored product applications for TwentyBN’s video understanding technology: large-scale crowd-acted video demonstrations of concepts, actions and situations that could endow machines with visual common sense and intuitive physics. The company was ultimately acquired by Qualcomm, where Moritz now serves as Director of Product Management.