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(Disclosure: former Opower engineer)

Opower is most certainly not an 'Artificial Intelligence company'. Opower's foundations are in Behavioral Science, literally applying the results of an experiment performed by Robert Cialdini to electrical utilities all over the world. (http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_efficient_plane...). If being a 'Big Data company' is a thing, that would better describe Opower - they ingested massive amounts of utility customer usage data, and from that were able to find similar house holds, rank them, and produce a behavioral effect that worked. It's an impressive feat but not AI.

Also, I really hope "I recreated this AI company in a weekend" isn't the new "I recreated Twitter in a weekend." No, you didn't.