Unsplash has released the world’s largest open library dataset, which includes 2M+ high-quality Unsplash photos, 5M keywords, and over 250M searches. They have big ideas about how the dataset might be used by ML/AI folks, and there have already been some interesting applications. In this episode, Luke and Tim discuss why they released this data and what it take to maintain a dataset of this size.

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• Luke Chesser – Website, X
• Timothy Carbone – GitHub, X
• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

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