This podcast episode explores the journey of RoboFlow, a company that provides tools and services for building and deploying computer vision models, and delves into the challenges and costs associated with annotation in computer vision. It also delves into new technologies like SAM and explores solutions for managing various annotation formats in computer vision data sets. Additionally, it provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of object detection models and discusses the revolutionary approach of Segment Anything in dataset preparation and model distillation.