Young companies find a perfect cofounder in AI to kick-start business

Sean Ammirati has been teaching a class on entrepreneurship for more than a decade.

A professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Ammirati has groups of mostly graduate students start businesses from scratch over the course of the spring semester. Some of the startups that his 49 students created this year were classic examples of the form: a dating app for couples in long-distance relationships, a personalized fitness app.