We’ve reported before about how AI is being used to fill in gaps in Flint, Michigan, pipe records to predict where pipes need to be replaced to solve the city’s water crisis, but what about using AI as a tool for mapping known infrastructure? That’s what Mach9 out of Pittsburgh is doing. Co-founder and CEO…
ChatGPT-4 Is Already Here: How Will You Use It?
ChatGPT-4 is here, on the heels of ChatGPT-3. What is new with this new edition of generative AI, and how could it benefit you? AI is here to stay, for better or worse, and companies in all industries are scrambling to figure out how to leverage the technology to make their business more efficient. OpenAI…
Bitwise raises $80 million to teach underserved to code
Bitwise Industries is a Fresno-based tech startup on a mission: teach underserved populations how to code, pay them to get real-world experience, and rebuild lives and economies of under-estimated cities. Now, the startup has raised $80 million in its latest funding round to advance this mission of leveling the playing field in tech. The round…
Replaced By A Room Full of CodeMonkeys: AI Use Cases for Software Engineers
Engineers may be grappling with the idea that AI can code, threatening low-level software developer jobs in the coming years, but AI is also a valuable tool that engineers are harnessing to do mundane tasks and process more information than humans can. Could AI Replace Basic Software Engineering Job Functions by 2040? According to the…
Mach9 Uses AI as a Surveying Tool To Strengthen the Grid
We’ve reported before about how AI is being used to fill in gaps in Flint, Michigan, pipe records to predict where pipes need to be replaced to solve the city’s water crisis, but what about using AI as a tool for mapping known infrastructure? That’s what Mach9 out of Pittsburgh is doing. Co-founder and CEO…
ChatGPT-4 Is Already Here: How Will You Use It?
ChatGPT-4 is here, on the heels of ChatGPT-3. What is new with this new edition of generative AI, and how could it benefit you? AI is here to stay, for better or worse, and companies in all industries are scrambling to figure out how to leverage the technology to make their business more efficient. OpenAI…
Bitwise raises $80 million to teach underserved to code
Bitwise Industries is a Fresno-based tech startup on a mission: teach underserved populations how to code, pay them to get real-world experience, and rebuild lives and economies of under-estimated cities. Now, the startup has raised $80 million in its latest funding round to advance this mission of leveling the playing field in tech. The round…
Replaced By A Room Full of CodeMonkeys: AI Use Cases for Software Engineers
Engineers may be grappling with the idea that AI can code, threatening low-level software developer jobs in the coming years, but AI is also a valuable tool that engineers are harnessing to do mundane tasks and process more information than humans can. Could AI Replace Basic Software Engineering Job Functions by 2040? According to the…
Error Costs Google $100b: How Do We Get The Most Out of AI?
Google responded to Open AI’s Microsoft-backed generative AI tool ChatGPT this week with a demo of an AI chatbot of their own, but after the chatbot called Bard made a factual error during the Google AI demo the company’s stock lost $100 billion. You read that right. And Microsoft hasn’t fared much better, introducing its…
Forj raises $15 million and announces merger
Startup Forj has just raised a $15 million-dollar Series A funding round and announced a merger with Web Courseworks that will come together under the Forj brand. Forj was founded in 2021 to create a B2B SaaS platform for communities of practice. This AI-driven software creates opportunities for engagement, learning, and making meaningful connections between…
Startup Lower disrupts lending with mortgage as a service
Columbus tech startup Lower has just unveiled a new service that could disrupt the lending industry: mortgage as a service. And it’s not just for them. Lower has created a mortgage as a service platform (MaaS), which allows clients to offer mortgages as a service to end customers. Their first customer is Opendoor. “Much like…
Stefanini Creates Real-Time Video Language Translation Tool with Microsoft
Many professionals have been in remote meetings since the pandemic hit, which has highlighted the need for a translation tool that works in real time for international companies. Stefanini has just created an AI-leveraged simultaneous translation tool with Microsoft to serve their multi-national teams collaborating over technology. We sat down with Alex Winetzki, Woopi CEO and…
QualSights raises just under $8 million for IoT AI consumer research platform
According to Chicago Inno’s exclusive interview with insiders, QualSights has raised just under $8 million in a Series A. The report states that the biggest challenge for the new startup is to keep pace with its own success, using the funding to accelerate hiring. FINSMEs reports that the tech platform provider had raised $7.7 million…
Tenacity Launches New Tool To Manage Cloud Spend Waste
Tenacity, a leading provider of cloud cost optimization tools, has just announced the launch of a new cloud cost management platform that helps users monitor and optimize their public cloud usage. “As the use of cloud-based technologies continues to grow exponentially,” the founders say, “cloud visibility and intelligence tools that help organizations optimize and manage…