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Shutterstock Builds on Data Licensing Strength with New AI Services for Model Training and Evaluation
Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), a family of brands delivering scalable creative and GenAI solutions to help customers fuel great work, today launched a suite of AI services for model builders, providing specialized training datasets and evaluation tools to accelerate development of next-generation AI systems. Building on the company's leadership in multimodal data licensing, this offering expands Shutterstock's role from data provider to active partner in model construction, training and assess
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