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Why choose Stack Overflow as your knowledge partner

16+ years

of community-curated knowledge

69k

technology tags used to organize content

14 seconds

average time a new question is asked

92%

of developers visit Stack Overflow regularly

60+ million

questions and answers

51+ billion

times knowledge has been reused by technologists

Improve AI performance with specialized and precise data

Recent, high-quality technical data validated by humans.

Ideal data structure and format for AI

Diverse dataset covering a range of technical and non-technical topics

Figure 1. Percent of “Perfect” answers (internal testing)

Based on a proprietary eval set of 1000 Q&A with ground truth answers created from Stack Exchange and Prosus AI Assistant technical Q&A (with highest user rating).

14.13%
Instruction fine tuned: MPT 30B

31.52%
Stack Overflow trained fine tuned: MPT 30B

37.38%
Code fine tuned: Code Llama-2 34B Instruction fine tuned

55.30%
Stack Overflow fine tuned: Code Llama-2 34B

Pre Stack Overflow training / fine tuning

Post Stack Overflow training / fine tuning

Figure 2. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

Performance of RACG on HumanEval with strong code LMs. Source: CodeRAG-Bench: Can Retrieval Augment Code Generation?

Method

GPT 4o

Baseline

75.6

91.5

Tutorial

90.2

Docs

90.9

GitHub

84.8

+21%

Improvement over baseline with
Stack Overflow + Stack Exchange Dataset

Sample datasets

Get access to three sample datasets that each contain 1,000 expert-vetted question and corresponding answer pairs from Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange sites.

Problem-solving

Assess your AI’s logic and reasoning capabilities with Q&A from Stack Overflow, Cross Validated, Mathematica, and Puzzling sites.

Coding

Evaluate your AI’s ability to comprehend code and identify errors with Stack Overflow Q&A containing at least one code block.

Cloud technology

Test how well your AI understands cloud technology concepts with Stack Overflow Q&A containing at least one cloud-related tag.

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