Architects are sitting on a data gold mine, and Anthropic and other frontier AI labs can’t get to it

Architecture may be one of AI’s hardest pursuits. Unlike coding or writing, the data that could be used to train an architecture AI model is not widely available (or stealable) online. Rather, it’s stored away in the servers and physical filing cabinets of individual architecture firms. Digital drawings, 3D models, and even hand sketches are the blood and guts of an architecture project, and they’re all vastly more complicated than the résumé writing or HTML coding that AI tools have quickly mastered.  None of the big AI labs are currently attempting to tackle this challenge. That’s leaving...