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Built on over 75 years of Westinghouse’s proprietary data and domain expertise, it’s powered by a custom large language model called bertha.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
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Etymology
French berthe, from Berthe (Bertha) †783 queen of the Franks