2019 In Review: 10 Open-Sourced AI Datasets

High-quality data is the fuel that keeps the AI engine running -- and the machine learning community can't get enough of it. In the conclusion to our year-end series, Synced spotlights ten datasets that were open-sourced in 2019. Waymo, the self-driving technology development company and Alphabet subsidiary, has been relatively protective of its technology and data since its establishment in 2009. This August however it released the Waymo Open Dataset, a high-quality multimodal sensor dataset for autonomous driving. Waymo principal scientist and head of research Drago Anguelov says the data set is "one of the largest, riches and most diverse self-driving data sets ever released for research."