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Don’t get left behind! Keep up with AI in property management and beyond.

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Meet Virtuoso Assistant: AI support built into Voyager

Virtuoso Assistant is an AI assistant built into Voyager. Ask questions in plain language and get answers without searching help articles or submitting a support ticket.

07 / 14 / 26

Build better training content faster with AI

Yardi Aspire Platinum’s AI tools help CRE training teams build courses faster, even the same day, reducing production time without cutting quality or expertise.

06 / 29 / 26

Say “yes” to efficient, AI-powered Yardi invoice approval

Smart Approval, a Yardi Virtuoso AI agent, does the work of approving invoices, leaving property management teams more time for value-add tasks.

05 / 18 / 26

Mixed portfolios

Powered by agentic AI: How decades of expertise shaped Chat IQ

Our multifamily marketing experts work with customer support teams. Their expertise directly informs our product and AI development, shaping increasingly human-like workflows that power Chat IQ.

05 / 19 / 26

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AI comes to affordable housing

Yardi Chat IQ gives prospective residents instant answers about eligibility and move-in steps, and keeps working for them long after they move in.

05 / 12 / 26

Affordable housing

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7 ways to collaborate with AI in property management training

Trainers who collaborate with AI deliver smarter, personalized results. Learn how Aspire AI in Yardi Aspire Platinum helps you design faster and achieve more.

10 / 08 / 25

Artificial intelligence

Yardi introduces Virtuoso AI platform

Introducing Yardi Virtuoso: The AI platform built for real estate

Yardi Virtuoso brings native AI, secure data intelligence and scalable automation to property management, helping you work smarter and focus on what matters most.

09 / 15 / 25

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Yardi Aspire AI: Reimagine training in property management

Discover how Aspire AI helps property teams create better training content faster with built-in tools for storytelling, localization and brand consistency.

08 / 28 / 25

Artificial intelligence

David Franklin, Yardi, Industry Principal: “GPT-5 is the absolute best model available today for 95% of use cases and users.”

Open AI’s ChatGPT-5 is here, & it’s the next big thing

OpenAI has finally released GPT-5, its long-awaited successor to GPT-4, and the reviews are a bit mixed. While it may not be true Artificial General Intelligence, there’s a lot to love.

08 / 19 / 25

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David Frankin, Yardi: "A cold war not fought with atomic weapons, but something potentially more powerful: AI."

China vs. America in open source, mind-blowing AI agents & more

China is winning the open source race, but America is fighting back. See how the latest AI agents are blowing minds with incredible automations.

08 / 04 / 25

Artificial intelligence

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Smart Lease: AI lease abstraction for commercial real estate

Struggling with manual lease abstraction? Discover how Smart Lease uses AI to simplify AP, boost accuracy and unlock real-time control over your CRE lease data.

07 / 30 / 25

Artificial intelligence

David Franklin, Industry Principal, Artificial Intelligence, Yardi: "The reasoning abilities of modern AI models have become, in many ways, superhuman."

xAI & Perplexity leapfrog the competition

Grok 4 smashes benchmarks, outperforming the best from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google while Perplexity releases an agentic browser that could supplant Chrome and Edge.

07 / 18 / 25

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David Franklin, Industry Principal, Yardi Systems. "Voice is the new UI. We are finally at the point where Scotty can say, "Hello, computer," and it will respond."

4 companies pushing AI forward right now

Let's dig into the latest open-source AI models. We'll explore how smaller ones are competing with large, established tech companies.

07 / 02 / 25

Artificial intelligence

David Franklin, Yardi, Industry Principal: “Imagine a world where you simply describe a movie to the AI and a few minutes later you can watch that movie.”

Generative AI, video models, ray tracing & agents, oh my!

This week we have a smorgasbord of content covering AI topics from generative AI to LLM leaderboards and automated agents. There’s never a dull moment in the world of AI!

06 / 20 / 25

Artificial intelligence

David Franklin, Yardi, Industry Principal: “An 80% price reduction frees up a lot of capacity for us to deliver complex, powerful solutions.”

OpenAI drops prices again, no new Siri from Apple & more

There’s a tremendous amount of great content coming out of the AI Engineer World’s Fair. Maybe that’s why OpenAI dropped the price on their o3 model by 80%? Let's explore.

06 / 13 / 25

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Yardi Showcases - AI built for multifamily at Apartmentalize

Yardi showcases AI built for multifamily at Apartmentalize 2025

Yardi is proud to return as a strategic partner and registration sponsor for Apartmentalize 2025, the multifamily industry’s largest event, powered by the National Apartment Association (NAA).

06 / 10 / 25

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David Franklin, Yardi, Industry Principal: “Adding connectors will … reduce the amount of time we squishy humans have to spend on boring, repetitive tasks.”

Latest trends at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco

The AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco is where the best minds in AI gather to present papers and exchange ideas. We cover the event and other happenings from the week.

06 / 06 / 25

Artificial intelligence

David Franklin, Yardi, Industry Principal: “Google's latest text-to-video generation engine is absolutely insane.”

A convergence: Google, OpenAI & Microsoft conferences align

It has been an exciting week (or two) in the world of AI! There was a convergence in the force, and all the big players made their announcements virtually simultaneously.

05 / 30 / 25

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Yardi’s new AI strategy & Grok’s bizarre meltdown

Yardi announced a bold new AI strategy, Grok had a bit of a meltdown, ChatGPT 4.1 was released and so was Alibaba’s Wan 2.1.

05 / 16 / 25

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David Franklin, Industry Principal, Artificial Intelligence, Yardi: "This is one of those things where you really need to see it to believe it!"

Welcome to The Real AI State: A new blog series

The Real AI State Blog is here to provide an update on some of the critical developments that have happened in the world of AI and relate them to the world of real estate.

05 / 09 / 25

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