| Founded | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Closed | 2023 |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Ai |
| Collapse type | Market Exit |
| Founder | Stefano Spaggiari |
Expert System (Enterprise NLP Division)
"Twenty years of semantic NLP made obsolete in eighteen months by GPT-4."
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Expert System's enterprise NLP division, built between 2018-2023 on the Cogito semantic AI platform, failed to compete after OpenAI's GPT-3 and GPT-4 rendered its rule-based semantic engine obsolete.
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