I had no idea ABBYY was so big. I thought it was just some minor OCR or PDF software developer. Interesting to hear about their historical arc. (I am also amused to see my Sutton meme used.)
Wikipedia says it’s a SaaS company “specializing in AI-powered document processing and automation, data capture, process mining and OCR”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABBYY
Collapse of mega-project to create AI based on linguistics
ABBYY spent 100 million USD for 30 years to create a model of language using hundreds of linguists. It fails to compete with transformers. This month the project was closed. More in Russian here: https://sysblok.ru/blog/gorkij-urok-abbyy-kak-lingvisty-proigrali-poslednjuju-bitvu-za-nlp/
I had no idea ABBYY was so big. I thought it was just some minor OCR or PDF software developer. Interesting to hear about their historical arc. (I am also amused to see my Sutton meme used.)
Thanks, this was an interesting article. The irony of course being that I, not knowing Russian, read it using Google Translate.
What’s ABBYY?
Wikipedia says it’s a SaaS company “specializing in AI-powered document processing and automation, data capture, process mining and OCR”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABBYY
ABBYY created Finereader which was one of the best OCR systems.