Brendan Ashworth

I’m thrilled to announce @reductoai’s $75M Series B led by @a16z, which brings our total funding to $108M. Just five months after our Series A, we've surpassed 1 billion pages processed and grown our monthly volume 6x. We now process hundreds of millions of pages every month for some of the world's best AI teams. Here's what we've learned and where we're headed 🧵

OpenAI’s new open models are HUGE news for open source GIS. Here’s why their first open release in 5 years is a game changer: LLMs are the future of both closed and open source GIS. They allow new users to harness the full power of GIS, and allow experts to work much faster. The new open models, gpt-oss, look amazing. Before today, we’ve found in our testing that the only truly viable LLMs for GIS are the closed source, leading models. But now, with gpt-oss, it seems that there is a truly viable, open option. OpenAI has benchmarked their new gpt-oss to be roughly comparable to o4-mini. In internal testing, we’ve found that OpenAI’s reasoning models (including o4-mini) are the best for working with GIS. So, if gpt-oss is comparable, then it would meet our internal bar for what is good enough for GIS. Running open source GIS like Mundi with closed models still offers more control than closed GIS, but it would be better with an open model. Now, with gpt-oss, we can confidently say that there is a good open model to go with your open GIS. And, for enterprise users who can’t use Azure or AWS models, this offers an alternative that doesn’t sacrifice performance. We’ll be building out support for gpt-oss right now, so you can use Mundi to it’s full potential locally.

Watch the waves from yesterday’s M8.8 megathrust earthquake near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula roll across seismic stations in North America. Just amazing.

Rivers of the US East Coast, colored by mean discharge

@ExergyDev totally, sending you a dm!

@normconstant Would be interested in contributing towards this capability if that’s something your open to.

redesigned the basic layer and feature operations in Mundi, our open source web GIS yesterday is it possible to make a web GIS simple (easy to adopt) without sacrificing functionality? QGIS has 12 different operations for selecting features but MapLibre maps tend to have 1 or 2 designs below are open source and self hostable

@ExergyDev no not yet but its on the roadmap!

@normconstant Does this support STAC integration?

@wellwithwale it doesn't have 3D support yet, so not yet - QGIS supports this tho

@normconstant This looks cool. Can it be used to make 3D map of cities including buildings?

We’re launching Mundi, the first open-source web GIS built for AI. After years of training geospatial AI models, we decided now is the moment to build the GIS software of the next decade. After the AI Vectorizer, Georeferencer, and Kue (our LLM agent inside QGIS), we realized that GIS is at an inflection point. But existing mapping software was neither powerful enough to allow for synchronous collaboration with AI agents, nor open source to allow the community to build on top of it. If we want to get the most out of LLMs, we need to create our own GIS that is purposefully designed for AI—Mundi. With Mundi, you collaborate with Kue, our AI GIS agent, to edit your map, rather than physically interacting with tools as you would in a legacy GIS.

@abdihak41438733 yes it's AGPLv3

@normconstant Is it open source

@radekrybs thanks! it's good at making existing raster + vector data look good, then share with others. we don't have any specific greenfield features though if that's what you're asking (our deed digitizer is in QGIS)

@normconstant This is really interesting and great work, congrats on the launch of Mundi. I’ll check it out, does it work well for mapping real estate developments?

This week, we will be showing some of our research into how we can integrate AI with GIS. The first is AI generated symbology! Kue has the ability to consider what a layer represents and create the best symbology for it. In this case, Kue styles a drought map

OpenAI's latest model, GPT-4.1, is now live in #QGIS through the Kue plugin with all new chats! Every time a new model is released we evaluate it internally, and 4.1 was so strong we decided to upgrade all users for better performance

Along with some major updates to Kue (coming soon 👀), we've been building a major update to our AI aerial/satellite imagery georeferencer! Check it out here, we'll be making it publicly available very soon

"You don't need to clean the data, I'm sure it's fine." The data in question:

Excited to announce @tryandai's $6.5M seed round led by @firstround and the launch of Andy, the first AI agent for patent attorneys. We're on a mission to transform how attorneys work with professional-grade AI.

The mistral team is in for a big surprise when they get back from holiday next month!

To make Kue—our AI GIS assistant—more user friendly we've translated it into 21 new languages! Now, Kue uses your QGIS' preferences to determine which language to work with you in. If you want to try it out, download the Kue plugin in #QGIS 🗺️

In QGIS it's hard to get geoprocessing right the first time, if it's even possible to do it in just one step. Now, Kue can learn from its own mistakes and plan multiple steps ahead. This makes questions that need multiple difficult geoprocessing algorithms possible to be answered only using AI, like this example in San Francisco:

New Video: Exploring the Kue plugin: an #AI Chatbot for #QGIS by @BuntingLabs 🌍✨ Simplify geoprocessing tasks with AI. Highlights: installation, base maps, styling, analyses & more. 🔔 Subscribe for more! #QGIS #AI #GeoAI #GIS youtu.be/hQJ1SuyyvT8