A developer created a market map of every company with a Wikipedia article by running all 7.5 million English articles through an embedding model. This allowed for clustering companies by semantic similarity and even identifying them using a calculated "company-ness" vector, a novel approach beyond manual categorization.

To move beyond keyword search in their media archive, Tim McLear's system generates two vector embeddings for each asset: one from the image thumbnail and another from its AI-generated text description. Fusing these enables a powerful semantic search that understands visual similarity and conceptual relationships, not just exact text matches.

The long-sought goal of "information at your fingertips," envisioned by Bill Gates, wasn't achieved through structured databases as expected. Instead, large neural networks unexpectedly became the key, capable of finding patterns in messy, unstructured enterprise data where rigid schemas failed.

A marketing team at NAC created a custom AI engine that queries LLMs, scrapes their citations, and analyzes the results against its own content. This proactive workflow identifies content gaps relative to competitors and surfaces new topics, directly driving organic reach and inbound demand.

Instead of just grouping similar news stories, Kevin Rose created an AI-powered "Gravity Engine." This system scores content clusters on qualitative dimensions like "Industry Impact," "Novelty," and "Builder Relevance," providing a sophisticated editorial layer to surface what truly matters.

The original Semantic Web required creators to manually add structured metadata. Now, AI models extract that meaning from unstructured content, creating a machine-readable web through brute-force interpretation rather than voluntary participation.

For decades, the goal was a 'semantic web' with structured data for machines. Modern AI models achieve the same outcome by being so effective at understanding human-centric, unstructured web pages that they can extract meaning without needing special formatting. This is a major unlock for web automation.

The next frontier of data isn't just accessing existing databases, but creating new ones with AI. Companies are analyzing unstructured sources in creative ways—like using computer vision on satellite images to count cars in parking lots as a proxy for employee headcounts—to answer business questions that were previously impossible to solve.

Kevin Rose discovered an unexpected use for vector embeddings in his news aggregator. By analyzing the vector distance and publish times of articles on the same topic, he can detect when multiple outlets are part of a paid PR campaign, as the content is nearly identical.