As we prepare to open the doors of bAI Labs with a ribbon cutting on October 8, we have been thinking about what it means to build our applied AI lab here in Annapolis, in the historic Livery Building and just blocks from reminders of the city’s long history of engineering innovation.
At bAI Labs, we are exploring how frontier AI can help engineers and scientists work differently. We begin with workflows: how people collect information in the field, monitor environmental and infrastructure systems, analyze data, investigate change, and make decisions.
From there, we develop and test applied AI solutions that can strengthen those workflows, helping teams discover patterns, bring different sources of information together, improve monitoring and data collection, and investigate questions that may have been difficult to ask before.
The technology may include geospatial AI, Earth observation models, sensors, digital twins, and intelligent field tools, but the goal is the same: better ways to understand the physical world and the infrastructure within it.
There is something fitting about doing this work in Annapolis. Just two blocks from our offices, a city marker tells the story of an earlier generation responding to infrastructure challenges with new engineering solutions.
After fire, contaminated wells, and growing demand exposed weaknesses in the city’s water supply, Maryland lawmakers called for “pure, healthful water for all purposes.”
In 1866, civil engineer William Rich Hutton designed a new waterworks system using innovative concrete pipes to carry water into Annapolis. Over time, the city continued to improve how it collected, moved, monitored, and treated water and wastewater as needs, knowledge, and technology changed.
More than 160 years later, that process of discovery and improvement continues. Today we have extraordinary new capabilities for observing the Earth, collecting information from the field, analyzing large and complex datasets, and using AI to help identify relationships and changes that deserve a closer look.
We are proud to be exploring that next chapter from Annapolis, and we hope you will join us for the bAI Labs ribbon cutting on October 8 at 10:30 a.m. at the historic Livery Building. Please RSVP through the Eventbrite link.
bAI Labs Ribbon Cutting Tickets, Thursday, October 8 • 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM | Eventbrite