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Building better enterprise AI: incorporating expert feedback in system development
Enterprises that aim to build valuable GenAI applications must view them from a systems-level. LLMs are just one part of an ecosystem.
January 30, 2024
Chris Glaze
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AI data development: a guide for data science projects
What is AI data development? AI data development includes any action taken to convert raw information into a format useful to AI.
November 13, 2024
Matt Casey
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LLM evaluation in enterprise applications: a new era in ML
Learn about the obstacles faced by data scientists in LLM evaluation and discover effective strategies for overcoming them.
November 25, 2024
Matt Casey

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Building the Benchmark: Inside Our Agentic Insurance Underwriting Dataset
In this post, we unpack how Snorkel built a realistic benchmark dataset to evaluate AI agents in commercial insurance underwriting. From expert-driven data design to multi-tool reasoning tasks, see how our approach surfaces actionable failure modes that generic benchmarks miss—revealing what it really takes to deploy AI in enterprise workflows.
July 10, 2025
Chris Glaze
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Fred Sala
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Evaluating AI Agents for Insurance Underwriting
In this post, we will show you a specialized benchmark dataset we developed with our expert network of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters (CPCUs). The benchmark uncovers several model-specific and actionable error modes, including basic tool use errors and a surprising number of insidious hallucinations from one provider. This is part of an ongoing series of benchmarks we are releasing across verticals
June 26, 2025
Chris Glaze
LLM Observability: Key Practices, Tools, and Challenges
LLM observability is crucial for monitoring, debugging, and improving large language models. Learn key practices, tools, and strategies of LLM observability.
June 23, 2025
Snorkel Team
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LLM-as-a-judge for enterprises: evaluate model alignment at scale
Discover how enterprises can leverage LLM-as-Judge systems to evaluate generative AI outputs at scale, improve model alignment, reduce costs, and tackle challenges like bias and interpretability.
March 26, 2025
Matt Casey
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Why enterprises should embrace LLM distillation
Unlock possibilities for your enterprise with LLM distillation. Learn how distilled, task-specific models boost performance and shrink costs.
February 18, 2025
Shane Johnson
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LLM evaluation in enterprise applications: a new era in ML
Learn about the obstacles faced by data scientists in LLM evaluation and discover effective strategies for overcoming them.
November 25, 2024
Matt Casey
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AI data development: a guide for data science projects
What is AI data development? AI data development includes any action taken to convert raw information into a format useful to AI.
November 13, 2024
Matt Casey
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How a global financial services company built a specialized AI copilot accurate enough for production
Learn how Snorkel, Databricks, and AWS enabled the team to build and deploy small, specialized, and highly accurate models which met their AI production requirements and strategic goals.
September 9, 2024
Team Snorkel
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Task Me Anything: innovating multimodal model benchmarks
“Task Me Anything” empowers data scientists to generate bespoke benchmarks to assess and choose the right multimodal model for their needs.
September 4, 2024
Jieyu Zhang
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Alfred: Data labeling with foundation models and weak supervision
Introducing Alfred: an open-source tool for combining foundation models with weak supervision for faster development of academic data sets.
August 27, 2024
Peilin Yu
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New GenAI features, data annotation: Snorkel Flow 2024.R2
This release features new GenAI tools and Multi-Schema Annotation, as well as new enterprise security tools and an updated home page.
August 7, 2024
Jennifer Lei
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How data slices transform enterprise LLM evaluation
Enterprises must evaluate LLM performance for production deployment. Custom, automated eval + data slices present the best path to production.
August 1, 2024
Vincent Sunn Chen
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Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B is the new Mr. Miyagi, now what?
Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B, rivals GPT-4o in benchmarks, offering powerful AI capabilities. Despite high costs, it can enhance LLM adoption through fine-tuning, distillation, and as an AI judge.
July 25, 2024
Shane Johnson
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Meta’s new Llama 3.1 models are here! Are you ready for it?
Meta released Llama 3 405B today, signaling a new era of open source AI. The model is ready to use on Snorkel Flow.
July 23, 2024
Cate Lochead
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Data-centric AI with Snorkel and MinIO
High-performing AI systems require more than a well-designed model. They also require properly constructed training and testing data.
July 12, 2024
Keith Pijanowski (Guest blogger)