<s>
deepset	B-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
startup	O
that	O
provides	O
software	O
developers	O
with	O
the	O
tools	O
to	O
build	O
production-ready	O
natural	B-Language
language	I-Language
processing	I-Language
(	O
NLP	B-Language
)	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
deepset	B-General_Concept
authored	O
and	O
maintains	O
the	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
software	I-Application
Haystack	O
and	O
its	O
commercial	O
SaaS	B-Architecture
offering	O
deepset	B-General_Concept
Cloud	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
June	O
2018	O
,	O
Milos	O
Rusic	O
,	O
Malte	O
Pietsch	O
,	O
and	O
Timo	O
Möller	O
co-founded	O
deepset	B-General_Concept
in	O
Berlin	O
,	O
Germany	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
same	O
year	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
served	O
first	O
customers	O
who	O
wanted	O
to	O
implement	O
NLP	B-Language
services	O
by	O
tailoring	O
BERT	B-General_Concept
language	O
models	O
to	O
their	O
domain	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
July	O
2019	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
released	O
the	O
initial	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
software	I-Application
FARM	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
November	O
2019	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
released	O
the	O
initial	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
software	I-Application
Haystack	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Throughout	O
2020	O
and	O
2021	O
deepset	B-General_Concept
published	O
several	O
applied	O
research	O
papers	O
at	O
EMNLP	B-Language
,	O
COLING	B-General_Concept
and	O
ACL	O
,	O
the	O
leading	O
conferences	O
in	O
the	O
area	O
of	O
NLP	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2020	O
,	O
the	O
research	O
contributions	O
comprised	O
German	O
language	O
models	O
named	O
GBERT	O
and	O
GELECTRA	O
,	O
and	O
a	O
question	B-Algorithm
answering	I-Algorithm
dataset	O
addressing	O
the	O
COVID-19	O
pandemic	O
called	O
COVID-QA	O
,	O
which	O
was	O
created	O
in	O
collaboration	O
with	O
Intel	O
and	O
has	O
been	O
annotated	O
by	O
biomedical	O
experts	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2021	O
,	O
the	O
research	O
contributions	O
comprised	O
German	O
models	O
and	O
datasets	O
for	O
question	B-Algorithm
answering	I-Algorithm
and	O
passage	B-Algorithm
retrieval	I-Algorithm
named	O
GermanQuAD	O
and	O
GermanDPR	O
,	O
a	O
semantic	O
answer	O
similarity	O
metric	O
,	O
and	O
an	O
approach	O
for	O
multimodal	O
retrieval	O
of	O
texts	O
and	O
tables	O
to	O
enable	O
question	B-Algorithm
answering	I-Algorithm
on	O
tabular	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Haystack	O
contains	O
implementations	O
of	O
all	O
three	O
contributions	O
,	O
enabling	O
the	O
use	O
of	O
the	O
research	O
through	O
the	O
open	O
source	O
framework	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
November	O
2021	O
,	O
the	O
development	O
of	O
the	O
FARM	O
framework	B-Architecture
was	O
discontinued	O
and	O
its	O
main	O
features	O
were	O
integrated	O
into	O
the	O
Haystack	O
framework	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
April	O
2022	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
announced	O
its	O
commercial	O
SaaS	B-Architecture
offering	O
deepset	B-General_Concept
Cloud	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
October	O
2022	O
,	O
the	O
most	O
popular	O
finetuned	O
language	O
model	O
created	O
by	O
deepset	B-General_Concept
was	O
downloaded	O
more	O
than	O
7	O
million	O
times	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Haystack	O
is	O
an	O
end-to-end	O
Python	B-Language
framework	B-Architecture
for	O
building	O
semantic	O
search	O
solutions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
its	O
modular	O
building	O
blocks	O
,	O
software	O
developers	O
can	O
implement	O
pipelines	O
to	O
address	O
various	O
search	O
tasks	O
over	O
large	O
document	O
collections	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
question	B-Algorithm
answering	I-Algorithm
,	O
document	B-Algorithm
retrieval	I-Algorithm
or	O
summarization	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
integrates	O
with	O
Hugging	B-Application
Face	I-Application
Transformers	I-Application
,	O
Elasticsearch	B-Application
,	O
OpenSearch	B-Application
and	O
others	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Thousands	O
of	O
organizations	O
use	O
the	O
framework	B-Architecture
,	O
including	O
Global	O
500	O
enterprises	O
like	O
Airbus	O
,	O
or	O
Infineon	O
,	O
Alcatel-Lucent	O
Enterprise	O
,	O
BetterUp	O
,	O
Etalab	O
,	O
and	O
Sooth.ai	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
deepset	B-General_Concept
Cloud	O
platform	O
supports	O
customers	O
at	O
building	O
scalable	O
NLP	B-Language
applications	O
by	O
covering	O
the	O
entire	O
process	O
of	O
prototyping	O
,	O
experimentation	O
,	O
deployment	O
,	O
and	O
monitoring	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
FARM	O
was	O
a	O
framework	B-Architecture
for	O
adapting	O
representation	O
models	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
FARM	O
supported	O
domain-adaptation	O
and	O
finetuning	O
of	O
these	O
models	O
with	O
advanced	O
options	O
,	O
for	O
example	O
gradient	O
accumulation	O
,	O
cross-validation	B-Application
or	O
automatic	B-Algorithm
mixed-precision	I-Algorithm
training	I-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
April	O
28th	O
,	O
2022	O
,	O
deepset	B-General_Concept
announced	O
a	O
Series	O
A	O
investment	O
round	O
of	O
$14	O
million	O
led	O
by	O
GV	O
,	O
with	O
the	O
participation	O
of	O
Harpoon	O
Ventures	O
,	O
Acequia	O
Capital	O
and	O
a	O
team	O
of	O
experienced	O
commercial	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
software	I-Application
and	O
machine	O
learning	O
founders	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
Alex	O
Ratner	O
(	O
Snorkel	O
AI	O
)	O
,	O
Mustafa	O
Suleyman	O
(	O
Deepmind	B-Application
)	O
,	O
Spencer	O
Kimball	O
(	O
Cockroach	B-Operating_System
Labs	I-Operating_System
)	O
,	O
Jeff	O
Hammerbacher	O
(	O
Cloudera	B-General_Concept
)	O
and	O
Emil	O
Eifrem	O
(	O
Neo4j	B-Language
)	O
.	O
</s>
