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Most AI assistants are generalists. Ask them about Butler-Volmer kinetics, the difference between SEI growth mechanisms in NMC versus LFP, or how to interpret a GITT pulse sequence - and they will give you something plausible, occasionally correct, and impossible to trust without cross-checking. That is a fundamental problem for engineering work. A tool you cannot trust at the domain boundary is a liability, not an asset. The Battery Expert AI was built to close that gap - a domain-specific assistant that understands battery electrochemistry deeply enough to be genuinely useful, and runs entirely on-premise so that proprietary cell data and OEM specifications never leave the building. ...

A Mechanical Engineer Walks Into a Neural Network I need to be honest about something. When ChatGPT exploded into public consciousness, I felt left behind. Everyone was talking about it. Using it. Marvelling at it. And I was sitting there thinking: I have no idea what is actually happening inside that thing. That bothered me more than it should have. You see, I have never liked black boxes. In my simulation work, I need to know why a model behaves a certain way. Is it a physics limitation? A numerical instability? A mistake in my boundary conditions? If I cannot explain the failure, I cannot fix it. ...