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If you believe in the future of AI agents, copilots, and enterprise automation, you have to believe in retrieval. That’s where most of today’s systems fall apart. Generative models are great at reasoning, but only if they’re grounded in the right context. Feed them the wrong chunk, an outdated doc, or irrelevant information, and your […]
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Initialized Leads $3.6M Seed Round for Digger
An AI-native infrastructure agent that makes configs write themselves Cloud infrastructure is still too cumbersome. Most teams rely on brittle CI/CD workflows, manual configuration, and DevOps bottlenecks just to make simple changes. Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) has moved things forward, but it hasn’t kept pace with how modern software is built today or software that is now […]
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How Initialized Founders are Leveraging AI for Internal Efficiency
AI is changing how founders and teams work. We’ve been hearing valuable insights from founders participating at some of our recent events about how they are utilizing AI. They shared specific AI workflows for improved engineering productivity, streamlining hiring processes, building out operations, creating custom AI tools, and the transformative effect of building an AI-first […]
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