A university bought the code behind its AI. The interesting part was what happened when students started asking questions the catalog could not answer.
ThinkingData spent a decade helping game studios see what players were doing. Now, renamed ThinkingAI, it wants its software to do something about it - without letting the machine have the final word.

Defog turns plain-English hunches into SQL, charts, and follow-up questions while keeping the underlying data in your environment. It is built for teams whose most expensive dashboard is the one still waiting in an analyst's queue.

The original AI autocomplete has grown into a governed coding platform for companies that cannot toss private repositories into any convenient cloud. Its bet is simple: in enterprise software, control can matter as much as cleverness.

Models get the applause. Ha Dao has spent six years working on the data, people and privacy architecture that determine whether those models are useful at all.