MUMBAI: In a world where AI developers are positively gagging for decent video data, Danish surveillance heavyweight Milestone Systems is stepping into the breach. The Copenhagen-based firm unveiled Project Hafnia today, a new platform that promises to democratise AI model training by serving up high-quality, legally kosher video data to hungry developers.
Milestone's new offering leverages Nvidia's tech stack to create what it hopes will be a knockout service for both data generators keen to monetise their footage and developers desperate for properly annotated video data that won't land them in regulatory hot water.
"Artificial intelligence is our generation's biggest game-changer," says Milestone Systems chief executive Thomas Jensen. "The Project Hafnia platform will collect and curate data with the aspiration to be the world's smartest, fastest and responsible platform for video data and training of AI models."
The firm is rolling out two distinct services:
* A cutting-edge "training as a service" offering where coders can access quality data to train their AI models
* A visual language model (VLM) service for smart city transport applications, which the company boldly claims will be "industry leading"
Milestone reckons its platform, powered by Nvidia's Cosmos Curator data curation tools, will speed up AI and analytics development by up to 30 times compared with current standards—a claim that will raise eyebrows in the notoriously cautious tech community.
The first cab off the rank is a transport-focused VLM designed to tackle everything from general traffic assessments to incident reporting and alert validation.
"The next phase in development and adoption of visually perceptive agentic AI services will be unlocked by recipes like Nvidia VSS blueprint combined with widely available and accessible fine-tuned VLM models," says NVIDIA vice president and general manager of embedded and edge computing Deepu Talla.
Project Hafnia launches initially as a pilot, with keen developers able to join a waitlist at hafnia.milestonesys.com/joinwaitlist. The platform will cut its teeth on traffic video data before expanding to other domains once fully operational.
Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Milestone employs more than 1,500 people worldwide and has been an independent company in the Canon Group since 2014.
