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Trajectory Gives the Subject Expert a Seat at the Training Console
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Trajectory has raised $45 million to make AI model training accessible to nontechnical experts. The one-year-old startup is valued at $300 million, according to TechCrunch, reflecting investor interest in tools that let people with specialized knowledge participate in building AI systems. The pitch addresses a division of labor common in technology projects. A subject expert may understand the work a model is meant to support, while an engineer understands how to build and operate the system. Making training tools more accessible could allow the person with domain knowledge to take a larger role in shaping the result. That does not make technical judgment irrelevant. Training an AI model involves choices about information, evaluation and use, and a simpler interface does not settle those questions by itself. A tool can lower the barrier to participation without making every decision behind the buttons easy. For the startup, the opportunity is to sell access to a process that has often required specialist skills. For experts, the attraction is a chance to bring their knowledge closer to the model. The office hierarchy gets a small rewrite: the person who used to explain the problem to the computer team may now arrive with a training project and a few questions of their own.
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