Netflix released a massive public dataset consisting of 100 million movie ratings and offered a $1 million prize to any developer who could improve their proprietary Cinematch recommendation accuracy by 10%. This open-source competition mobilized thousands of global data scientists, accelerating collaborative filtering and matrix factorization algorithms.
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