Palo Alto-based artificial intelligence startup Diffbot Inc. today launched what it claims is the world’s largest structured, enterprise-ready database of human knowledge ever created.

According to the company, the Diffbot Knowledge Graph is 500 times larger than Google LLC’s own Knowledge Graph and growing autonomously every day. It’s launching with more than 1 trillion facts and 10 billion entities and it’s growing by 130 million facts every month.

Managing and curating that amount of data involves the use of machine learning, computer vision and natural language processing with the service built specifically to provide knowledge as the end product, paid for and owned by the customer.

Diffbot raised a relatively small $10 million in a Series A venture capital round back in 2016 despite having been founded in 2010. That’s because it was somewhat remarkably both self-funded and profitable, a rarity among startups. Two years later, that hasn’t changed.

“Far from a theoretical research project in search of a business application, artificial intelligence is the backbone of Diffbot and the company uses state of the art AI methods to deploy profitable products at scale while also furthering the field by funding extensive research,” a Diffbot spokesperson told SiliconANGLE.

In 2018 Diffbot powers application for customers that include Salesforce.com Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., eBay Inc. and Yandex N.V. It remains profitable as it launches what potentially is a groundbreaking knowledge graph.

For all that, the scale of the Diffbot Knowledge Graph may cause concern in some quarters over its potential Big Brother nature. Although there’s no suggestion that Diffbot or its customers will use the service for nefarious purposes, the scope of the knowledge it contains about just everyone and everything on the planet is staggering.

The datasets within the Diffbot Knowledge Graph include personal information, including skills, employment history, education and social profiles. For corporations, it includes rich profiles of companies and their workforces globally, ranging from “Fortune 500 to SMBs.”

Location data includes mapping data, addresses, business types and zoning information. It’s also said to index every news article, dateline and byline from anywhere on the web in any language, along with scraping and indexing social media chats, social sharing and conversations everywhere from article comments to web forums such as Reddit.

“A Web-wide, comprehensive and interconnected Knowledge Graph has the power to transform how enterprises do business,” Mike Tung, founder and chief executive officer of Diffbot, said in a statement. “Google’s ‘Knowledge Graph’ is little more than restructured Wikipedia facts with the simplest, most narrow connections drawn between them and built solely to serve advertisers.”

Tung said that Diffbot’s Knowledge Graph is the first one that organizations can use to access the full breadth of information contained on the web. “Unlocking that data and giving organizations instant access to those deep connections completely changes knowledge-based work as we know it,” he said.

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