AI is quickly becoming a part of our everyday lives, but it can be confusing - especially in an industrial context. Let's break it down.
And it's been around for a long time. It spans everything from decision
trees and Machine Learning (ML) models to deep learning and the Large Language Models (LLMs) making so much recent progress.
Most Industrial AI actually isn't "ChatGPT" - but is instead a purpose-built ML model somewhere in the stack.
This type of AI is powerful and valuable, but is trained on targeted datasets for very specific use cases.
These models are trained on massive public datasets to unlock intelligence for general use. They are flexible, can reason, chat, write code, act, and collaborate - and they're fun!
They are trained by companies that are often referred to as "Frontier Labs" (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, xAI, Meta AI), and are constantly improving. "Multimodal" LLMs can even understand and generate images, video, and audio - not just text.
When people talk about and hype AI today, this is usually what they're referencing.
LLMs are super-powerful, but it can be difficult to unlock their full potential with only a chatbox.
That said, it's clear that they are most effective when they can work with us. Seeing what we see as we iterate and improve in a shared digital environment.
Software Engineers have IDE's (Integrated Development Environments) where they can do just that, and it's making software development faster and easier. Sometimes it helps with the tedium,
and sometimes with the core creation - but always working in a shared space with a human that remains in control.
Manufacturing needs the same.
This is what we're building at Threaded: a digital, collaborative, AI-native development environment for the factory. It's where industrial teams
can work together to launch, scale, and improve industrial systems, and where we can unlock the power of frontier AI models for human + AI industrial engineering
to drive real productivity gains.
It starts with the Value Stream Map with an embedded Lean SensAI™, but there's much more to come. Whether you're reshoring production,
manufacturing your first product, or driving continuous improvement in established operations, Threaded is where your team and AI can work together to scale and
improve.
Threaded brings collaborative AI to manufacturing, would love for you to check it out!
