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From Noise to Knowledge: Break Through Tech Fellows Help Clorox Make Sense of Customer Feedback
Using Large Language Models (LLMs) and a range of machine learning techniques—including clustering, dimensionality reduction, and sentiment analysis— AI Program fellows worked to organize unstructured customer feedback into 10–15 distinct, meaningful themes.

Predicting Insurance Claim Costs: AI Studio Challenge Project with Allstate
Using insurance claim data, Break Through Tech AI fellows worked with Allstate to develop machine learning models that forecast the ultimate cost of insurance claims.

Break Through Tech’s First Decade: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Dr. Judith Spitz, founder and CEO of Break Through Tech, reflects on the organization's first ten years of innovation and the road ahead.