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Meetup Recap, AI Regulation, Energy Demand, and more
Your weekly dose of Texas AI community news
AITX Team
March 28, 2025
Hello everyone! AITX Team here with more updates this week.
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Connect you with like-minded peers passionate about AI.
Provide a space for sharing ideas and receiving feedback on AI projects you’re building.
Share helpful tools and invaluable resources.
Before we jump into the regular news, a few housekeeping items:
February AITX Meetups:
Our upcoming meetups:
Hack AI: Thursday, April 3 | sign up here!
Austin Meetup: Tuesday, April 25 | sign up here!
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In this week’s edition you’re getting:
🤠 Meetup Recap
5 Upcoming Events
3 AI Community Stories
1 Community Highlight
So let’s jump in!
Austin AITX March Meetup Recap
AITX Meetup | March 25, 2025
We had 6 great demoes at our last meetup. Let’s see what they’re about:
TinyMCE offers a powerful WYSIWYG rich text editor that seamlessly integrates into web applications with minimal code requirements. Their platform supports major frameworks including Angular, React, Vue, and WordPress, while providing extensive customization options for developers.
At the meetup, they showcased their new AI Assistant feature, which enhances the editing experience by helping users create, edit, and refine content through intelligent suggestions and automated formatting tools.
CloudHomes is a cutting-edge platform revolutionizing virtual property tours through AI-enhanced visualization technology.
The service allows prospective buyers to explore properties remotely with photorealistic detail, offering a deeply immersive experience far beyond traditional virtual tours.
By integrating advanced algorithms to predict lighting conditions and spatial relationships, CloudHomes provides an unprecedented level of realism that helps buyers make confident decisions without physical visits.
ChadEx by Isaac Chase, Nick Scipione
ChadEx connects brands with users through chat apps. The idea is that users come to these platforms with a problem, and brands can offer solutions through targeted ads. They emphasized that this approach is becoming more popular since chat apps can provide a cost-effective way for brands to reach potential customers.
Voice Agent for SMBs by Mando Gomez
Mando built a lot of systems previously for X and Amazon. Now he is focused on building voice agents for small businesses.
Terminal builds solutions that provide yard operators with full visibility and control over critical transportation assets in real-time using computer vision. Terminal promotes a safer, more efficient, and transparent global supply chain.
CloudShip is a specialized productivity tool that uses intelligent agents to automate critical DevOps and infrastructure engineering tasks.
The platform streamlines workflows by handling infrastructure cost scanning, vulnerability identification, and Jira integration without manual intervention. With features specifically tailored to DevOps challenges, CloudShip helps technical teams reclaim time for innovation rather than maintenance.
UPCOMING EVENTS
When: Wednesday, April 2 | 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM CST
Where: Capital Factory 701 Brazos St · Austin, TX
What: Managing complex workflows in autonomous systems poses significant challenges as they scale. This talk explores strategies for optimizing agent-based architectures, where multiple agents interact and adapt in dynamic environments.
When: Wednesday, April 2 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM CST
Where: Capital Factory 701 Brazos St · Austin, TX
What: Tony Guarnaccia, Founder of Guestify.AI, equips entrepreneurs, coaches, and business leaders to seize attention, sharpen messaging, and own their niche through top podcast appearances.
When: Tuesday, April 1 | 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM CST
Where: Capital Factory, Voltron Room (1st floor) 701 Brazos Street · Austin, TX
What: We present DeepSeek-V3, a strong Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model with 671B total parameters with 37B activated for each token. To achieve efficient inference and cost-effective training, DeepSeek-V3 adopts Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) and DeepSeekMoE architectures, which were thoroughly validated in DeepSeek-V2.
🤖 Hack AI
When: Thursday, April 3 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CST
Where: Capital Factory 701 Brazos St, 16th Floor · Austin, TX
What: Welcome to Hack AI, a monthly session for builders all over the Austin area to learn about and build the latest AI technology.
When: Wednesday, April 2 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM CST
Where: ACC - RGC 3000 1218 West Avenue · Austin, TX
What: An evening of innovation, inspiration, and connection! Don't miss out on the latest in AI and LangChain Ecosystem technology.
COMMUNITY STORIES
Virginia's governor has vetoed a major AI regulatory bill while Texas has significantly revised its approach, signaling a shift toward more innovation-friendly AI policies at the state level.
Why it matters: These decisions could shape how Texas positions itself as an AI innovation hub, potentially attracting tech companies seeking regulatory environments that enable growth rather than restrict it.
Need-to-know:
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed a restrictive "High-Risk AI" bill that would have imposed nearly $30M in compliance costs
Texas Rep. Giovanni Capriglione introduced an overhauled version of his AI governance bill, removing heavy-handed elements
These changes align with the current administration's "AI opportunity agenda" rather than the EU's restrictive regulatory model
Existing laws already provide protections against potential AI harms without stifling innovation
Learn more here.
Texas lawmakers are discussing comprehensive regulations for AI through a bill that would establish an AI council to monitor the technology's development and usage.
Why it matters: How Texas approaches AI regulation could determine its competitiveness in attracting AI businesses while balancing public safety concerns.
Need-to-know:
HB 149 would create an AI Council without rule-making power, focusing instead on ethics and innovation
The bill requires transparency (AI usage disclosures) and bans AI use for illegal activities or discrimination
State agencies would need to justify AI usage and follow specific guidelines for implementation
Learn more here.
Energy industry experts gathered in Dallas to address critical challenges facing the Texas power grid amid increasing AI-driven energy demand.
Why it matters: Experts predict Texas's power grid may need to triple in size over the next decade to meet surging demand from data centers and AI technologies.
Need-to-know:
Data centers and AI applications are dramatically increasing electricity consumption
Microgrid technology emerges as a solution for enhanced grid resilience
Industry faces critical workforce shortages across technical roles
Utilities are deploying AI itself for grid management and outage prevention
Learn more here.
COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHT
This week, we’re highlighting Shep Bryan.
Shep is one of the longest standing members of the AITX community, both demoing at meetups and winning hackathons.
He’ll be hosting a Supabase X Lovable meetup!
When: Friday, April 4 from 6:00 - 7:00 pm CST.
If you want a chance to see him give a Lovable demo during the event, you can click the below 👇️
You can connect with him on LinkedIn here.
That’s all for now, folks!
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