AAL Newsletter
A Newsletter about AI that architects, designers, construction professionals, can actually relate to, and use as a resource to navigate their career and enterprise AI implementation and/or upskilling. Visit www.aalinnovationai.com to learn more about us.
AAL Updates for Mid Jan 🏢✨
Welcome to our mid-month digest. At AAL INNOVATION, our mission is to upskill the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) industry by bridging the gap between AI potential and practical business results.
This January, we are focusing on the financial logic behind AI, the cultural impact...
Jan 12, 2026
Happy 2026! 🚀
Happy New Year, everyone!
We hope you are rested and ready for a big year.
To kick things off, we are tackling a problem everyone hates: spending days formatting slides instead of actually designing.
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Join us next week for our first Espresso Workshop of the year. We are using Gamma AI to show ...
Jan 01, 2026
AAL 2025: A Year in Review
Dear community,
As 2025 comes to an end, thank you for being part of AAL’s year of building, teaching, and sharing AI for the built environment.
This year took us from classrooms to conference stages, from local professional institutes to global conversations—powered by collaborators, partners, s...
Dec 31, 2025
PROPRIETARY INTELLIGENCE
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👉 DeepSeek-AI has delivered a monumental leap forward with DeepSeek-V3.2, a model engineered to balance high computational efficiency with world-class reasoning and agent performance. 👉The highly optimized variant, DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, has been shown to surpass GPT-5 in certain performance b...
Dec 05, 2025
Something is Up.
If the East and the West simultaneously look into the same solution for the same problem.
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From Hong Kong, we see a fascinating convergence in the AEC world.
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Mainland China and the West are both pushing hard on the same critical frontier: mastering data p...
Nov 23, 2025
Hot Take Fresh Out of Oven: Is Winning A Slow Race...Enough?
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In boardrooms across the industry, a comforting narrative is taking hold:
"Our competitors are also holding back. The economy is bad. We don't need to lead; we just need to be one step ahead of the firm next door when the time is right."
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Is that a strategy? Or does it mistake a relative ra...
Nov 16, 2025
The Future of Design: ADFA 2025 Winners & New Frontiers in AI
As we wrap up ADFA 2025, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to all participants, jury members, sponsors, and supporters who made ADFA 2025 a success. This year’s submissions showcased remarkable creativity and groundbreaking exploration of AI-powered architectural design.
Announcing the Winn...
Oct 30, 2025
They say to "shoot for the moon"
because even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
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A full moon.
A shooting star.
And wishes for wonderful things to come.
Wishing our entire AAL INNOVATION community a peaceful and joyful Mid-Autumn Festival.
May your celebrations be bright!
With love from Team AAL INNOVATION.
Oct 06, 2025
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Curated insights on AI and the future of the built environment.Issue #03 | 24 September 2025
Hi there,
This edition is packed with opportunities: a chance to apply your skills to a real-world project in Kenya, a practical guide to streamline your visualization workflow curated by our team, and a...
Sep 24, 2025
✨ This Month at AAL: From Real Talks to Real Tools ✨
🚀 This Week at AAL: Housing Authority Talk, RIBA AI Session, and What’s Next!
We’ve had an exciting week sharing the future of AI in the built environment – and there’s more ahead:
🏢 Housing Authority Talk – A Full House!
We were honored to be invited by the Secretary of Housing to present to ov...
Sep 07, 2025
✨ Upcoming Highlights from AAL Innovation
🚀 This Week at AAL: RIBA Talk, AAL MICS #9 with Simon Hirtz, and ADFA Deadline!
We have an exciting few days ahead, and we’d love for you to be part of it:
🎙 RIBA Talk – Tomorrow
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Aug 27, 2025
AI Avatars? We made some
Hi everyone, we tried something new this week; we cloned ourselves, specifically our Creative Leads, Bosco and Natalie, they actually,Â
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themselves.
Using an app called HeyGen, they were able to create these videos after training their own avatars:
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You can check out the video here: https...
Aug 13, 2025
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