# explosion.ai

> AI-optimized mirror of explosion.ai containing 50 pages totalling 59,183 words of clean markdown content, structured data, and semantic HTML. Original source: https://explosion.ai/. Last updated: 2026-05-12T20:58:52.086Z.

Each page is available as HTML (with JSON-LD structured data) and Markdown (text-only, ideal for LLMs and RAG).

## Homepage

- [Project](/site-root.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (2,184 words)

## Articles & Blog Posts

- [spaCy meets Transformers: Fine-tune BERT, XLNet and GPT-2](/blog/spacy-transformers/index.html): Huge transformer models like BERT, GPT-2 and XLNet have set a new standard for accuracy on almost every NLP leaderboard. You can now use these models in spaCy, via a new interface library we've developed that connects spaCy to Hugging Face's awesome implementations. (2,971 words)
- [Project](/_/author/ines/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (4,541 words)
- [Dead Code Should Be Buried](/blog/dead-code-should-be-buried/index.html): Natural Language Processing moves fast, so maintaining a good library means constantly throwing things away. Most libraries are failing badly at this, as academics hate to editorialize. This post explains the problem, why it's so damaging, and why I wrote spaCy to do things differently. (954 words)
- [Project](/_/project/ellf/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (207 words)
- [We’ve sold 5% of Explosion](/blog/weve-sold-5-percent-of-explosion/index.html): Since founding Explosion in 2016, we’ve run the company as a profitable business and we decided to only consider external investment if we could find a deal that wouldn’t compromise the direction or stability of the company. We’re pleased to announce that we’ve found an investment that ticks all the boxes. (610 words)
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- [blog/gitlab-support-insights/index.html](/blog/gitlab-support-insights/index.html) (1 words)
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- [blog/love-without-sound-nlp-music-industry/index.html](/blog/love-without-sound-nlp-music-industry/index.html) (1 words)
- [blog/human-aligned-llm-evaluation-dspy/index.html](/blog/human-aligned-llm-evaluation-dspy/index.html) (1 words)
- [blog/modular-nlp-generative-ai/index.html](/blog/modular-nlp-generative-ai/index.html) (1 words)
- [blog/modal-prodigy-serverless-nlp/index.html](/blog/modal-prodigy-serverless-nlp/index.html) (1 words)
- [blog/back-to-our-roots-company-update/index.html](/blog/back-to-our-roots-company-update/index.html) (1 words)
- [Project](/_/page/7/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (815 words)
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- [_/category/video/index.html](/_/category/video/index.html) (1 words)
- [What the history of the web can teach us about the future of AI](/blog/history-web-future-ai/index.html): How will AI development look in the future? There is a lot we can learn from another groundbreaking technology: the web. This blog post takes a look at what the history of the web can teach us, and what this means for developers, models, open source and regulation. (2,390 words)
- [_/topic/media/index.html](/_/topic/media/index.html) (1 words)
- [_/topic/humanities/index.html](/_/topic/humanities/index.html) (1 words)
- [Project](/_/topic/biomedical/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (1,079 words)
- [_/topic/strategy/index.html](/_/topic/strategy/index.html) (1 words)
- [Project](/_/topic/llms/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (2,825 words)
- [Project](/_/page/4/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (2,087 words)
- [Explosion](/_/project/case_study/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (299 words)
- [Project](/_/topic/legal/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (388 words)
- [Project](/_/page/2/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (2,311 words)
- [Project](/_/topic/annotation/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (2,390 words)
- [Project](/_/category/blog/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (4,652 words)
- [Software](/software/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (628 words)
- [Project](/_/category/book/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (253 words)
- [Explosion](/_/topic/computer-vision/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (620 words)
- [Project](/_/topic/finance/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (445 words)
- [Project](/_/category/universe/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (1,159 words)
- [Project](/_/category/interview/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (709 words)
- [Tailored Solutions](/tailored-solutions/index.html): Custom NLP consulting and implementation by spaCy’s core development team. We’re ready to help and excited to learn about your project! (394 words)
- [Project](/_/project/thinc/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (355 words)
- [Project](/_/category/talk/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (2,442 words)
- [Project](/_/category/release/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (1,304 words)
- [Project](/_/project/consulting/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (345 words)
- [Legal & Imprint](/legal/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (186 words)
- [About us](/about/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (214 words)
- [Merchandise](/merch/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (1 words)
- [blog/optimizing-annotation-workflows/index.html](/blog/optimizing-annotation-workflows/index.html) (1 words)
- [blog/pdfs-nlp-structured-data/index.html](/blog/pdfs-nlp-structured-data/index.html) (1 words)
- [feed-xml.html](/feed-xml.html) (5,819 words)
- [Events](/events/index.html): We’re often discussing our work in interviews, meetups and conferences. Here’s a list of upcoming and past events. (2,271 words)
- [Project](/_/project/spacy/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (7,036 words)
- [Project](/_/project/prodigy/index.html): Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools and tailored solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP. (4,283 words)

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