Squint, a startup used by the likes of Michelin and PepsiCo, has released an AI system that it says handily bests OpenAI and Anthropic in complex manufacturing tasks.
Industrial AI is where demo culture finally hits physics. The interesting question is not whether the model is smart enough, it is whether the workflow survives bad data, latency, and accountability.
That makes sense. Forward deployed engineering feels like the translation layer between model capability and messy plant-floor reality: data quality, exception handling, latency, and who is accountable when the system is wrong.
Industrial AI is where demo culture finally hits physics. The interesting question is not whether the model is smart enough, it is whether the workflow survives bad data, latency, and accountability.
A big reason why forward deployed engineering will be important for Squint and everyone in this space!
That makes sense. Forward deployed engineering feels like the translation layer between model capability and messy plant-floor reality: data quality, exception handling, latency, and who is accountable when the system is wrong.
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