Ancestryâs AI Buffet: DNA Meets ChatGPT Smorgasbord
In a 2025 tech saga straight out of Silicon Valleyâs AI reality show, Ancestryâyes, that Utah-based DNA kit peddlerâhas turned its 65 billion records across 80 countries into a gigantic AI playground. CTO Sriram Thiagarajan candidly admits they're AI's equivalent of bedazzled teenagers, using everything from Azure, OpenAI, Meta's LLaMA, to Amazon Bedrock in a messy polyamorous AI relationship. They built an 'AI gateway' â aka digital club bouncer â to pick which model dates their data best. Once taking nine months and a small fortune to digitize the 1940 census, in 2021 they cut that to nine days, thanks to their own handwriting-recognizing AI ninja. Oh, and humans still fact-check the AI just in case it decides to ghost them with fake family tales. To keep this circus running, hackathons and brown bag lunches fuel their AI obsession, proving genealogyâs new motto: why pick one when you can confuse customers with them all?
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Ancestry is like that kid with too many toysâAzure, OpenAI, Meta, and Amazon in the sandbox, yet humans still hover to stop AI from accidentally making your great-grandpa a wizard.
Why settle for one AI when you can have a messy chatty family reunion of models arguing over your DNA? Ancestry's recipe for genealogical chaos.
Ancestry's AI squad is like the Avengers but for family treesâexcept the only superpower is speeding up nine months of grunt work into nine days of AI magic with human babysitting.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 9/14/2025 | Author: Lauren Edmonds
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