#041 - An AI Platform That Helps Architects Reuse Their Drawings, A Personal AI Relationship Manager App for iOS, Imbue Raises $200M To Build AI Agents That Can Reason And Code.
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AI BYTE # 1 📢 - Pirros: The AI platform That Helps Architects And Engineers Reuse Their Drawing Sets.
⭐ If you are an Architect or an Engineer, you know how tedious and time-consuming it is to create and manage your drawing sets.
You have to document every detail of your building design, from the foundation to the roof, and make sure they comply with the codes and standards. You also have to deal with the problem of reusing your drawing sets for future projects, which is often difficult due to the lack of organization and searchability.
That’s why I was intrigued by Pirros, a new startup that uses AI to solve this problem.
Pirros is a tool that automatically categorizes and catalogs your drawing sets, so that you can easily find and reuse them for any project. It also uses clustering algorithms to group similar details together, so that you can see different versions of the same condition and choose the best one.
Pirros integrates seamlessly with any firm’s existing tools or workflows. You just need to identify the models you want to include in your Pirros catalog, and Pirros does the rest of the work with its integration pipeline.
You can then access your catalog from any device and customize your drawing sets by adding or removing items, changing dates or durations, or adjusting your budget.
Pirros claims that it can help you save up to 80% of your time and cost on detail management, while also improving the quality and consistency of your drawing sets.
The company has raised $2 million in seed funding from prominent investors and advisors, such as Carl Bass, former CEO of Autodesk; Joseph Walla of HelloSign; and Ryan Sutton-Gee of PlanGrid.
It has also attracted more than 30 customers, including large architecture firms like KPFF Engineers and RAMSA.
Pirros is currently in beta testing and plans to launch publicly later this year. One of the upcoming features that is really exciting is using AI to identify the best versions of every detail automatically and provide users suggestions and recommendations.
Pirros is a pioneer in the field of architectural detail management, which has been largely overlooked by other technology platforms.
By solving this specific problem, Pirros aims to transform the way buildings are designed and documented.
AI BYTE # 2 📢 - Moments: A Personal AI Relationship Manager App for iOS
⭐ If you’re looking for a way to stay in touch with the people who matter most to you, both personally and professionally, you might want to check out Moments, a new iOS app.
Moments is a Personal Relationship Manager (PRM) that helps you keep track of your contacts, send personalized messages and emails, and improve your social skills.
Moments lets you add the names of your contacts and organize them into groups and levels of importance. You can also add notes and events for each contact and sync them with HubSpot CRM if you use it.
Moments will then remind you to reach out to your contacts by creating a social to-do list that you can access from the app. You can choose how often to receive these reminders, and how to act on them. You can either call, text, email, or snooze the reminder.
One of the most interesting features of Moments is its AI composer, which can help you write personalized messages and emails that match the interests of your contacts.
The AI composer uses Natural Language Generation (NLG) to create unique and engaging texts that you can edit and send from the app. You can also use the AI composer to generate compliments, advice, jokes, and other types of messages that can strengthen your relationships.
Moments is not just a utility app, though. It also aims to help you improve your social skills through learning courses and tasks.
These are prompts and suggestions that teach you how to network better, communicate effectively, and build rapport with your contacts. For example, it might suggest that you ask for feedback, share a story, or express gratitude.
Moments is free for up to 20 contacts, which includes accessing its learning courses. For more than 20 contacts, the app offers a $3.99 per month subscription.
The app is currently available only for iOS users, but an Android version is planned for a later date this year.
Moments is a promising app that combines CRM and AI to help you manage your relationships in a smart and easy way. Whether you want to stay in touch with your family, friends, colleagues, or clients, Moments can help you do that with personalized messages and reminders.
It can also help you improve your social skills with learning courses and tasks that teach you how to network better.
AI BYTE # 3 📢 - Imbue Raises $200M To Build AI Agents That Can Reason And Code.
⭐ Imbue, an AI research lab, has secured $200 million in a Series B funding round that values the company at over $1 billion.
The funding will accelerate its development of AI systems that can reason and code, so they can help humans accomplish larger goals in the world.
Imbue believes that reasoning is the primary blocker to effective AI agents. Reasoning involves the ability to deal with uncertainty, to change approaches, to ask questions, to make decisions, and to handle the complexity of the real world.
Imbue is building AI models that are tailor-made for reasoning, using techniques that spend more compute during inference time.
One of the use cases that Imbue is focusing on is code. Code can improve reasoning and is one of the most effective ways for models to take actions on a machine.
Imbue is training very large models, with over 100 billion parameters, on data that reinforce good reasoning patterns. These models can code better than existing models, such as GPT-4 and Codex.
Imbue is also investing in building its own AI and machine learning tooling, such as AI prototypes for debugging and visual interfaces on top of AI models. It is also conducting research into understanding the learning process in large language models.
Imbue’s goal is to build practical AI agents that can understand human goals, communicate proactively, and work for humans in the background.
It hopes to release systems that enable anyone to build robust, custom AI agents that put the productive power of AI at everyone’s fingertips.
