In a significant move poised to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) adoption across industries, Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) today announced the launch of its new AI Training Data Services. This comprehensive offering is designed to empower enterprises to build, fine-tune, and implement AI models with unprecedented speed and at an enterprise scale, addressing a critical bottleneck in the journey from AI pilot to widespread deployment.
The launch comes as businesses globally grapple with the challenge of leveraging high-quality, relevant data to train increasingly complex AI and generative AI models. Cognizant’s new services directly tackle this “data debt,” providing a robust framework for data annotation, curation, model customization, enhancement, and rigorous enterprise-grade AI evaluation and governance.
Ravi Kumar S., CEO of Cognizant, emphasized the company’s commitment. “At Cognizant, we’re dedicated to helping our clients accelerate their AI innovation at scale. By launching AI Training Data Services, we’re providing enterprises with the high-quality, multi-modal data they need to build sophisticated AI solutions.” He added that this move leverages Cognizant’s deep experience as a data and AI model training partner to digital native pioneers, now extending that expertise to its Global 2000 clientele.
The services offer a suite of capabilities, including multi-modal data labeling for text, images, audio, and video, ensuring high accuracy in AI training for diverse applications from content understanding to conversational AI. A key feature is the provision of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) data, crucial for aligning AI model behavior with human preferences and values under client oversight. Furthermore, the offering supports enterprise-grade AI deployment within clients’ virtual private cloud environments, prioritizing data security and privacy.
Industry analysts are quick to recognize the strategic importance of Cognizant’s initiative. Anil Vijayan, Partner at Everest Group, noted, “Businesses today are seeking to deploy generative and agentic AI at scale… The need for comprehensive and diverse data that speed up AI model creation, enhance model precision, and support adherence to regulations, becomes even more pronounced. Cognizant’s AI Training Data Services with their track record brings value in this space.”
With over 10,000 specialists having already quality-checked billions of data points, Cognizant is well-positioned to address the growing demand for trusted, high-precision datasets across sectors like healthcare, automotive, media, and digital marketing. This launch marks a significant step in democratizing advanced AI development, enabling more enterprises to harness the transformative power of AI to drive efficiency, innovation, and competitive advantage.
