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AI Weekly: Companies look to ‘scale up’ their use of AI

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Companies are looking to move from small-scale, proof-of-concept AI deployments to operating AI at a massive scale. That’s according to Bratin Saha, VP and general manager at Amazon AI, who spoke with VentureBeat in a recent phone interview about general trends in the AI industry. The pandemic supercharged the…
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Pilot on the AI-driven ‘financial back office’

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Many startups fail due to cash flow challenges. Keeping an eye on financials is important, but bookkeeping and back office tasks might not be every startup’s strength. Especially when operating…
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Forrester: Adopting fraud-fighting AI requires the right technical framework

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. AI tools have become part and parcel of fraud management solutions in the enterprise, according to a new Forrester report. In it, analysts at the firm identify key fraud management use cases where AI can help, mapping how brands can deploy AI technologies in each scenario. Fraud is on the rise worldwide, and it’s…
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Yellow.ai raises $78M to expand its AI chatbot platform globally

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Conversational AI platform provider Yellow.ai today announced the close of an over $78.15 million series C round led by WestBridge Capital with participation from Sapphire Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing the company’s total funding to more than $102.15 million. Yellow.ai says…
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IDC: AI spending will reach $342B in 2021

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Companies could spend nearly $342 billion on AI software, hardware, and services in 2021. That’s according to the latest edition of IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Artificial Intelligence Tracker…
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Sensorium demos AI-driven avatars as latest virtual beings

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Sensorium Galaxy is an upcoming virtual world that will blend human and AI characters so that people can have unscripted conversations with virtual beings. And it’s showing off some of those AI characters now. I had a conversation with one of the AI characters, Katherine. She’s an aspiring makeup artist studying in…
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