Shutterstock announces expansion of training datasets for AI

Shutterstock (SSTK) announced that it is “accelerating the future of generative AI” with an expansion of its training datasets. “This expansion provides developers, researchers, and enterprise partners with unprecedented access to multimodal data high-quality licensed content for the full model training lifecycle, marking the next phase in Shutterstock’s rapidly growing data licensing business,” the company said in a statement. Shutterstock adds that its expanded data catalog now features assets from templates and fonts to long-form video, premium metadata, and specialized podcast and science imagery. “This expansion reflects the accelerating demand for high-quality training data as generative AI development reaches critical mass globally,” it said.