We tested models with knowledge cutoffs in 2025 so expect them to have knowledge of Tax Year 2024 forms in their weights. We also tested models with ability to do web search to get any other forms it thinks necessary: https://github.com/column-tax/tax-calc-bench
That all being said, we agree, which is what we've built with our internal tax coding agent, Iris: https://www.columntax.com/blog/introducing-iris-our-ai-tax-d... (ability to get just the right Tax form context on a per-line basis to turn the tax law into code).
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I'm a fan of https://www.vamo.com/ for multi-city trips. You put in your point of origin and all the cities you want to visit (and for how long), and it routes you between the cities on the best type of transportation and offers accommodation suggestions as well.
We also have implemented a "real-time" aspect whereby the price can also fluctuate based on the number of users currently viewing/purchasing an item vs. the average number of users usually viewing the item (for example when Outside Lands begins selling their tickets at 10am PST). Other factors taken into consideration (as of now, but more to come) are: inventory_remaining, and profit_margin (i.e. how much you make on each sale).
The initial version uses the Google Prediction API as the machine learning backend, and obviously some tweaking would need to be done to the model to get it to 99% right, but I'm confident that for verticals like event tickets this service would be very useful. Imagine Coachella tickets not selling out within 5 minutes or a play at a local theater having an automatic discount the night before the show if half the seats are still unfilled.
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This is a great point. One example of a company doing this is Rocket Internet (http://www.rocket-internet.de/), a Germany-based "internet accelerator" that brings tech companies and services to developing/underserved markets. Some of their properties include foodpanda (http://www.foodpanda.com/, Grubhub/Seamless for SE Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Latin America), easyTaxi (http://www.easytaxi.com/, the world's largest taxi booking app), Lazada (http://www.lazada.com/, Amazon for Indonesia and SE Asia).
They've raised over $4b and created over 20,000 jobs since they started in 2007. Pretty ingenious.
Congrats to InstaMotor on the launch; this looks like the kind of experience I would want when selling a car. Best of luck to the team!
While we're on the subject of cars and improving the car buying/selling process, I just wanted to say that Edmunds.com has opened up its car data to the world in a sane, RESTful API. Check it out at http://developer.edmunds.com and let me know if you have any questions: mbock @ edmunds . com.
We also just finished Hackomotive, a $35k hackathon focused on startups improving the car shopping experience. You can see the winners here: http://www.hackomotive.com/. We'd obviusly love to see InstaMotor apply for next year!
There's still a lot of work to be done to make the experience of car shopping easier, so it's sad to see CarWoo shutting down. Side note: those interested in disrupting the car buying space like CarWoo/TrueCar may want to check out http://www.hackomotive.com/ the $35k hackathon put on by Edmunds.com this February. (Disclaimer: I used to intern for Edmunds.com on the API team, http://developer.edmunds.com/)
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