Encord vs Huawei Cloud

Merlin is Encord's agentic intelligence layer, letting teams build, observe and optimise their data infrastructure through conversation. It creates complete labeling setups from prompts or documents, reports data metrics and coverage gaps on demand, and surfaces issues affecting model performance. It is reachable inside Encord or from external tools over Model Context Protocol, including Claude and Slack.

Data Agents automate Encord data pipelines by integrating humans, state-of-the-art models and a customer's own models into data workflows. They handle tasks such as pre-labeling, object segmentation and tracking, video captioning, audio transcription and sentiment analysis, combined with human-in-the-loop quality assurance.

Encord Active is Encord's model and data evaluation product. It evaluates and validates models against their data to surface, curate and prioritise the most valuable data for training and fine-tuning, covering model robustness checks, drift and failure-mode detection, automated label-error detection, and active learning workflows across images, video, 3D/LiDAR, audio and documents.

Encord Annotate is Encord's multimodal data labeling product, used to annotate and review images, video, audio, text, documents, DICOM, LiDAR and geospatial data. It provides AI-assisted labeling, customizable ontologies, human-in-the-loop review workflows and quality-control tooling for managing large annotation teams.

Managed annotation service: Encord supplies vetted domain experts for a customer's task and runs the projects, with an evaluation workflow built around the customer's own spec rather than volume alone.

Managed collection of real-world training data for physical AI: in-field operators, teleoperation facilities and configurable lab environments gathering the embodied, egocentric and sensor data a robotics model needs.

Encord Index is Encord's multimodal data curation and management product. It lets teams search datasets with natural language and similarity search across video, image, audio, LiDAR, text, document, geospatial and HTML files, filter by 40+ data metrics and custom metadata, visualise outliers on embeddings plots, and remove duplicates and poor-quality data via Collections. Data stays in the customer's own cloud with 'zero data migration required'.

End-to-end data service for robotics, autonomous systems and embodied AI: data collection (in-field operators, teleoperation), curation, LiDAR/point-cloud/multi-camera annotation, VLA/VLM action-captioning, and post-deployment feedback loops, with on-prem/VPC deployment.

Digital-content creation platform that generates lifelike virtual-human avatars speaking/acting from a script and audio, using voice activity detection, NLP and intelligent choreography.

Image, text and video detection service that flags pornography and advertisements to reduce business risk.

Deep-learning API that identifies objects, scenes and concepts in images against a pool of visual content tags.

Deep-learning image search service providing industry-specific feature vectorization and similarity search.

Service that recognises printed and handwritten characters and converts them into editable text.

Service for building, publishing and managing intelligent question-and-answer bots, billed per API call.

Speech recognition service that converts short audio files of up to one minute into text.

AI-driven video analytics service for event detection and decision-making support across smart-city, smart-campus and workplace-safety use cases, using over 80 proprietary algorithms.

AI coding platform that reads project context to generate and modify code, sold in free and per-seat paid editions.

GPU- and Ascend-processor cloud servers for deep-learning training/inference, scientific computing and graphics workloads, provisioned in minutes via the console.

Token-metered service giving access to hosted third-party foundation models, run on Huawei's CloudMatrix infrastructure.