Ansys Inc. is the latest Pittsburgh-area tech company to jump in on embedding advanced artificial intelligence tools into the company's product offerings.
By early 2024, Canonsburg-based Ansys said it will offer AnsysGPT as a conversational and multilingual AI assistant for Ansys customers to receive support for the company's engineering- and simulation-based software. The assistant will also be able to answer relevant questions on physics and engineering topics as well.
It's being made possible through the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service and has been launched in a beta form for select Ansys customers. OpenAI Inc., backed by $10 billion in funding from Microsoft Corp., released its ChatGPT product to the public last year, which has gone on to see use cases for the popular chatbot-based platform explode in recent months.
"AnsysGPT complements existing AI integration across Ansys' portfolio, including computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solvers that leverage AI/M[achine ]L[earning] to improve turbulence models, structural tools that apply AI/ML to predict computational spend, and process integration and design optimization software that employs AI/ML to efficiently build reduced order models," Anthony Dawson, vice president of customer excellence at Ansys, said in a prepared statement. "We are confident AnsysGPT will add great value to our customer experience, providing more seamless support and useful information for Ansys customers."
Ansys said its AnsysGPT tool has been trained using data from the company directly, which includes Ansys Innovation Courses, technical documentation, blog articles and how-to-videos. Customer inputs are not stored or used to train the model, the company said.
The company joins edtech platform makers Duolingo Inc. and consumer analytics platform CivicScience, both based in East Liberty, as the latest local company to deploy ChatGPT tech
