Netflix
US streaming service. Launched a public competition in 2006 to improve its recommendation algorithm, spurring machine learning research.
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Netflix Prize Competition Launched by Netflix
In October 2006, Netflix launched the Netflix Prize, an open competition offering $1,000,000 USD to any team that could improve the accuracy of the company's Cinematch recommendation algorithm by at least 10% on a supplied ratings dataset, measured by root mean squared error.