Synapticyte is my startup dedicated to stopping school and workplace shootings using advanced AI technology. We’ve developed a highly accurate model for identifying firearms and are working on building a robust alert system. This system will enable schools or organizations to notify police, faculty, and staff when weapons are detected. Our model leverages a combination of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and transformers. Although it’s still in the early stages, we believe this is a powerful and important application of AI technology.