Back 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 Qualcom...