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Daily AI Roundup: Biggest Machine Learning, Robotic And Automation Updates

AIT Staff Writer — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 21:30:15 +0000

This is our AI Daily Roundup. We are covering the top updates from around the world. The updates will feature state-of-the-art capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, Fintech, and human-system interactions.

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Qrypt Joins NVIDIA Inception

Qrypt, the pioneering quantum-secure encryption company, announced its acceptance into NVIDIA Inception, a program that nurtures startups revolutionizing industries with technological advancements.

AppsFlyer Unveils Cutting-Edge AI Solution for Elevating Marketing Campaign Creativity and Performance

AppsFlyer, the global leader in marketing measurement, attribution, and data analytics, launched Creative Optimization, its new product that provides marketers with unparalleled insights into their creative assets and data-driven guidance on maximizing their impact.

Accenture to Expand Network of Generative AI Studios Across Asia Pacific and Latin America

Accenture is setting up generative AI studios in nine countries across Asia Pacific and Latin America to respond to growing client interest in the technology. Studios across Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Greater China, India, Japan, Mexico, Philippines and Singapore will connect clients with data and AI experts from Accenture, and ecosystem partners, ventures, and other strategic investments to enable rapid experimentation, co-creation and scaling of generative AI solutions using Accenture’s responsible AI framework as a foundation.

Zendesk Signs Definitive Agreement To Acquire Klaus

Zendesk announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Klaus, the industry leading AI-powered quality management platform. AI is driving a rapid increase in customer interactions and radically transforming the world of customer service. Customer service teams are being asked to increase their ROI by managing a rising volume of interactions while providing quality service, and increasing their organization’s efficiency in the process.

Siemens Delivers Innovations In Immersive Engineering And Artificial Intelligence To Enable The Industrial Metaverse

Siemens unveiled innovations that are combining the real world and the digital worlds to redefine reality as it opened CES 2024, the world’s leading technology gathering. Siemens announced new partnerships and breakthroughs in AI and immersive engineering to enable the industrial metaverse, and highlighted how these technologies are empowering the world’s innovators to thrive using its open digital business platform, Siemens Xcelerator.

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Accenture to Expand Network of Generative AI Studios Across Asia Pacific and Latin America

Business Wire — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 12:12:14 +0000

Accenture is setting up generative AI studios in nine countries across Asia Pacific and Latin America to respond to growing client interest in the technology. Studios across Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Greater China, India*, Japan, Mexico, Philippines and Singapore* will connect clients with data and AI experts from Accenture, and ecosystem partners, ventures, and other strategic investments to enable rapid experimentation, co-creation and scaling of generative AI solutions using Accenture’s responsible AI framework as a foundation.

“Our generative AI Studios strengthen our existing investments in data and AI to provide our clients with a full spectrum of capabilities to build and scale AI to improve productivity and drive growth.”

“Clients today are ready to move beyond proof of concepts and into production to tackle more complex business problems across their value chain. They also recognize that generative AI introduces new, unique risks that need consideration and mitigation,” said Leo Framil, CEO of Accenture Growth Markets. “Drawing on our experience of client conversations, existing projects, our rich talent and industry partnerships, our generative AI Studios will provide enterprises with the best ideas and capabilities to shape tailor made solutions and help them reinvent their business, responsibly.”

According to a recent Accenture survey, 77% of the C-suite in APAC plan to increase their AI-related spending in 2024 as companies move from proof of concept to customizing foundation models with proprietary data. 84% of the C-suite in LATAM plan to do the same.

“Harnessing the true potential of generative AI lies in going deeper, and building a strong data strategy, anchored in a digital core including a modern cloud and ERP infrastructure, and mature data and AI capabilities,” said Vivek Luthra, Data and AI lead for Accenture Growth Markets. “Our generative AI Studios strengthen our existing investments in data and AI to provide our clients with a full spectrum of capabilities to build and scale AI to improve productivity and drive growth.”

The studios will cater to a wide range of industry and functional needs, but each will also specialize in one or more industries including banking, insurance, telecommunications, public sector, manufacturing, renewable energy, chemicals and mining. The studios will be operational in January 2024, except in Argentina and Mexico which will join the network later this year.

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Daily AI Roundup: Biggest Machine Learning, Robotic And Automation Updates

AIT Staff Writer — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 21:30:49 +0000

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DOCOMO Unveils Groundbreaking Human-Augmentation Platform Enabling Shared Taste Experiences Worldwide

NTT DOCOMO, INC., Miyashita Laboratory of the School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, Meiji University,1 and H2L Inc. announced that they have developed a technology that enables taste information to be shared between people via a human-augmentation platform2 developed by DOCOMO. The solution combines DOCOMO’s human-augmentation platform with Miyashita Laboratory and H2L’s technology for reproducing tastes.

Datalogic Invests in Oversonic Robotics, Continuing Its Commitment to Artificial Intelligence

Datalogic has acquired a minority stake in Oversonic Robotics, an innovative software company developing cognitive computing systems for robotics, including RoBee, the first humanoid robot certified for work in manufacturing facilities with an Industry 5.0 perspective.

Deci Unveils DeciLM-7B: A Leap Forward in Language Model Performance and Inference Cost Efficiency

Deci, the deep learning company harnessing AI to build AI, unveiled the latest addition to its suite of innovative generative AI models, DeciLM-7B, a 7 billion parameter large language model. Building upon the success of its predecessor DeciLM 6B, DeciLM 7B is setting new benchmarks in the large language model (LLM) space, outperforming prominent open-source models such as Llama2 7B and Mistral 7B in both accuracy and efficiency.

Customers Management IT and SirfinPA Acquired by Accenture

Top 10 News of Google in 2023

In the ever-evolving digital landscape, Google stands as a juggernaut of innovation, and as we delve into 2024, the tech giant unveils a compelling narrative with its top 10 news stories—each a testament to its influence in shaping the future of technology.

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Customers Management IT and SirfinPA Acquired by Accenture

Business Wire — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 14:58:02 +0000

Accenture has signed an agreement to acquire Customer Management IT and SirfinPA, a pair of jointly-owned Italian technology consultancies supporting the public sector and specializing in justice and public safety. The acquisition aligns with Accenture’s focus on helping Italian public service organizations build their digital core and deliver enhanced services to the citizens they serve.

Founded in 2010, with offices in Rome, Naples and Cosenza, Customer Management IT and SirfinPA are leading players within the Italian IT sector. Recognized for their work across the country’s national justice ecosystem, Customer Management IT and SirfinPA have supported the Italian Ministry of Justice by building and supporting technology applications in the central criminal justice department and have provided digital infrastructure for trials.

With a multidisciplinary staff of approximately 300 employees, Customer Management IT and SirfinPA provide system and application integration and management services, cloud application development, infrastructure management, and fleet management for desktops and servers.

“Following the acquisition of leading AI organization Ammagamma, we are continuing to strengthen our services and offerings for the Italian public sector with these two leading companies which bring several decades of industry experience,” said Mauro Macchi, chairman and CEO of Accenture Italy. “This acquisition boosts our ability and capacity to support Italian public sector innovation and help our government clients advance their transformation journeys.”

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Daily AI Roundup: Biggest Machine Learning, Robotic And Automation Updates

AIT Staff Writer — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 21:30:43 +0000

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Top 10 News Of IBM In 2023

IBM has been much in vogue in 2023 with all its recent developments. IBM kept the crazy eyes focused around the year. We have compiled a list of Top 10 news of IBM from 2023 which took the limelight of the tech domain among its millions of news in 2023.

HiddenLayer Partners with CVE Program as a Numbering Authority to Secure AI

HiddenLayer, the leading security provider for artificial intelligence (AI) models and assets, proudly announces its partnership with the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA), reinforcing our commitment to enhancing AI system security.

Accenture to Acquire Jixie’s Intelligent Digital Marketing Platform and Business in Indonesia

Accenture has agreed to acquire the business of media and marketing technology company, Jixie. Jixie’s intelligent digital marketing platform and team will be integrated into Accenture to strengthen its marketing transformation capabilities and resources through Accenture Song—the firm’s tech-powered creative group—helping Indonesian clients deliver more personalized experiences to enhance customer engagement for sustainable business growth.

Virtual Internet Announces Virtual 5G Enhanced Networking in Support of Wearable Device Technology

Virtual Internet announced that Virtual 5G has now been enhanced to provide increased performance and security for platforms that incorporate wearable technologies. Virtual 5G enhancements are now fully automated and users do not need to make any special configuration changes to enable enhancements for their wearables.

Priori Announces Artificial Intelligence Powered Scout Platform

Priori, the leading legal technology platform for outside counsel decision-making, announced the latest version of its award-winning product, Scout, is now powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI).

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Accenture to Acquire Jixie’s Intelligent Digital Marketing Platform and Business in Indonesia

Business Wire — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 10:24:32 +0000

Jixie will bolster Accenture Song’s marketing transformation capabilities to help Indonesian businesses deliver more efficient and effective marketing efforts for sustainable growth Jixie’s intelligent digital marketing platform will boost Accenture Song’s marketing transformation capabilities and resources in Indonesia

Headquartered in Singapore with a focus on servicing clients in Indonesia, Jixie offers a comprehensive suite of monetization and marketing growth tools. Its platform is a robust advertising ecosystem that connects publishers and brand owners with the ability to co-create solutions through reliable customer insights. This transforms marketing from a fragmented process with limited control into a strategic priority, amplifying simplicity while safeguarding brand safety, consumer data and privacy.

The integration of Jixie’s platform into Accenture Song’s marketing capabilities will help clients optimize customer data effectively and efficiently into actionable insights, regaining the control, speed and trust needed to securely capitalize on Indonesia’s fast-growing digital economy that’s projected to reach US$146 billion by 2025 before growing eightfold by 2030.

Jayant Bhagava, country managing director, Indonesia, at Accenture, said: “The convergence of marketing, data science and technology creates opportunities for businesses to redefine their customer engagement model. Jixie’s intelligent digital marketing solutions complement our technology expertise, providing a winning proposition for businesses to bring a higher level of personalization and effectiveness to their marketing efforts. This acquisition will allow us to better serve our clients in navigating complex marketing challenges in this era of interconnected digital world, which is crucial in driving long-term growth.”

With Jixie’s platform, publishers can access monetization tools, such as header-bidding solutions and performance marketing, to improve advertising returns. Brand owners can also seamlessly enhance and integrate content securely without intermediaries, allowing them to utilize valuable insights for unique and meaningful brand engagement. Jixie can help publishers double their monetization returns and support brand owners in significantly increasing campaign clickthrough and conversation rates while enriching customer data.

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“The value of data in today’s rapidly changing digital economy is immense, and the digital media ecosystem has seen much disruption, including the impending loss of third-party cookies. Jixie is an impactful platform that amplifies publishers’ perspectives and simplifies the digital marketing experience. This investment extends Accenture Song’s data-led commerce and marketing transformation work in Indonesia, empowering clients with highly relevant and results-driven solutions for sustainable business growth,” said Joseph Tan, Indonesia lead for Accenture Song.

Vincent Martin, co-founder and managing director, Jixie, said: “Jixie has seen proven success in its marketing performance capabilities that boost publishers’ revenue and the formation of an ecosystem that has attracted advertisers to run successful campaigns. The next step for us is scale. We’re thrilled to be joining Accenture and contribute to shaping a more sustainable media industry, helping companies leverage their data in a trusted and advantageous manner in service of their customers.”

Accenture Song in Southeast Asia has been making significant investments to help clients grow and be relevant to their customers today and into the future. The acquisition of Jixie’s business is the second investment made in Indonesia after the acquisition of Romp. It follows Accenture Song’s recent agreement to acquire Rabbit’s Tale in Thailand. Other recent acquisitions by Accenture Song globally include ConcentricLife and Fiftyfive5.

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McDonald’s & Accenture: Elevating Experiences with Tech Expansion

Business Wire — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 12:15:27 +0000

McDonald’s Corporation and Accenture announced an expansion of their strategic partnership to help execute McDonald’s strategy to leverage the latest edge technology and apply generative AI solutions across its restaurants worldwide to improve operations as well as customer and crew experience. Through this work, McDonald’s also will enhance the digital capabilities of its employees.

This partnership will help support McDonald’s technology strategy which aims to leverage scale and unlock greater speed and efficiency for customers, restaurant teams, and employees. This includes the acceleration of automation innovation from equipment manufacturers, allowing restaurant general managers to quickly spot and enact solutions to reduce business disruptions, ultimately reducing complexity for restaurant crew and leading to customer benefits such as hotter, fresher food.

This phase of innovation is also designed to build an even stronger technology team at McDonald’s. Accenture will help train and support McDonald’s global workforce by using Accenture’s learning and development programs, online training courses and boot camps for emerging talent to ensure the workforce has the AI, data and edge computing skills needed in the digital era.

Brian Rice, executive vice president and global chief information officer, McDonald’s, said, “In order to unlock the opportunity in our ongoing digital investments, we chose Accenture, our long-time partner who has helped us build our digital foundation, to work with us on this next phase of innovation. Accenture’s deep understanding of our business, our industry, and of course technology, will allow us to leverage the full potential of the cloud and generative AI solutions by implementing advanced practices to quickly leverage those technologies as well as to nurture and empower the talent within our organization. Lifelong learning and digital upskilling are at the heart of our culture and long-term growth plans – and embedding this across our workforce will enable greater business agility and performance.”

Julie Sweet, chair and CEO, Accenture, said, “We are incredibly proud to continue to partner with McDonald’s as they reinvent the customer experience, stay ahead of their customers’ changing needs and reimagine what a restaurant can be. This new work will be a leading example across industries of innovating with tech data and AI at the core, across the cloud continuum, all the way to the edge. And doing so in a way that keeps their people in the forefront, building the skills they need to meet and delight their customers in new ways every day.”

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Daily AI Roundup: Biggest Machine Learning, Robotic And Automation Updates

AIT Staff Writer — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 21:30:35 +0000

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Google Cloud and HashiCorp Extend Partnership to Advance Product Offerings with Generative AI

Google Cloud and HashiCorp announced an expansion of their partnership to build and deliver functional generative AI to enhance automation and accelerate the cloud transformation efforts of their mutual customers. The two companies will work together to launch new AI-powered features across HashiCorp’s product suite, built using Vertex AI.

Lenovo Launches New Hybrid Cloud Platforms and Services to Accelerate AI

Lenovo announced it has expanded its hybrid cloud platform for AI with new ThinkAgile hyperconverged solutions and ThinkSystem servers that advance cloud deployment, hybrid connectivity and AI capabilities, powered by the next generation of Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors.

Intel Accelerates AI Everywhere With Launch of Powerful Next-Gen Products

At its “AI Everywhere” launch in New York City, Intel introduced an unmatched portfolio of AI products to enable customers’ AI solutions everywhere — across the data center, cloud, network, edge and PC

Google Cloud and Accenture Launch Generative AI Center of Excellence

Accenture and Google Cloud announced a new initiative to help businesses adopt generative AI to improve operations, create new lines of businesses, and build unique customer experiences. Accenture and Google Cloud will create a global, joint generative AI Center of Excellence (CoE) that will provide businesses with the industry expertise, technical knowledge, and product resources to build and scale applications using Google Cloud’s generative AI portfolio and accelerate time-to-value.

Primrgy Chooses SparkCognition’s AI & Asset Performance Management Solution

SparkCognition, a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) software solutions announced the selection of its AI-enabled Renewable Suite, delivering Asset Performance Management (APM) for Primergy’s solar and storage projects.

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Google Cloud and Accenture Launch Generative AI Center of Excellence

PR Newswire — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 09:25:04 +0000

Accenture and Google Cloud will provide AI managed services to scale generative AI, including deployment of Gemini, Google’s newest and most capable model

This is the latest step in Accenture and Google Cloud’s work to help organizations reinvent their businesses with generative AI and unlock new growth opportunities. The new CoE will help enterprises determine the optimal large language model–including Google’s latest model, Gemini–to use based on their business objectives. With improved performance, efficiency, and state-of-the-art capabilities, Gemini can significantly enhance how large enterprises build and scale with AI to complete highly complex and common tasks. The Gemini Pro API is available in public preview now, with Gemini Ultra coming early next year.

The new CoE will combine Accenture’s deep model customization services and full-stack engineering services with Google Cloud’s advanced generative AI technology, providing clients with:

Specialized access to Accenture data and AI architects and engineers to develop advanced prompt engineering strategies for AI model optimization, fine-tuning, and foundation model customization—giving clients the unique resources needed to achieve business outcomes faster with generative AI. This will include access to Accenture’s AI Navigator platform, curated industry datasets, and support for Google Cloud’s Model Garden collection, with responsible AI controls embedded throughout to help meet ethical and governance requirements.
Gemini and a wide selection of large language models (LLMs), including more than 130 models through Model Garden on Vertex AI. Vertex AI offers a full stack of AI and machine learning (ML) development tooling that helps enterprises quickly adopt and deploy generative AI capabilities within their organizations, with APIs, MLOps tools, and native integrations with BigQuery that enable them to easily train, test, and tune models on a single platform. The CoE will also help enterprises adopt Gemini, Google’s most capable and flexible model, to transform business operations with its sophisticated reasoning capabilities.
New rapid prototyping services on Google Cloud to accelerate development and deployment of generative AI applications in order to jumpstart new business capabilities across enterprise operations and industries. This will include powerful use cases that apply generative AI to improve enterprise search, enhance customer contact center experiences, automate unstructured document management and summarization, and more.
The use of Duet AI for Developers to support code generation and completion for customers—bringing generative AI to software engineering teams to enhance every stage of the development lifecycle.
Access to Google Cloud’s differentiated, AI-optimized infrastructure, including Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), and Google AI Hypercomputer for quick training, tuning, and serving of AI models.
Industry-tested AI managed services and best practices, based on learnings from Accenture’s more than 300 scaled generative AI projects and AI solutions, and 1,450+ AI patents and patent-pending applications.

The Accenture and Google Cloud CoE arrives at a critical juncture as organizations across diverse industries seek to scale the power of generative AI across their enterprise operations. For example, health insurance provider Independence Blue Cross has a long history of using emerging technologies to drive business value.

“At Independence Blue Cross, we’ve harnessed the power of AI to better manage massive amounts of data and show opportunities to improve member experiences and introduce new services,” said Michael R. Vennera, executive vice president and chief strategy, corporate development and information officer, Independence Health Group. “We are looking forward to working with Accenture and Google Cloud through their new Center of Excellence to explore new ways generative AI can help proactively manage our members’ health.”

“As a catalyst for business reinvention, generative AI will transform how people work and access information,” said Karthik Narain, group chief executive–Technology at Accenture. “Organizations want to move from experimentation with generative AI to scaled implementations faster. Accenture’s deep expertise in managing and scaling large language models tailored for business needs, paired with tools like Accenture’s model switchboard, can help accelerate adoption. Our latest joint investment with Google Cloud can help clients drive quicker business results, as well as long-term value from their generative AI applications.”

“Accenture is a leader in providing AI services that help enterprises successfully implement generative AI and accelerate business transformation,” said Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud. “Through our joint center of excellence, enterprises across industries have access to leading technical experts and engineers that can address their most complex business challenges and quickly begin creating value from Google Cloud’s advanced generative AI technology.”

Additionally, Accenture will also expand its own internal use of Google Cloud technology by making Duet AI for Developers accessible to thousands of its software engineers—enabling new and expert developers with sequential and context-sensitive coding suggestions to accelerate software development.

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Daily AI Roundup: Biggest Machine Learning, Robotic And Automation Updates

AIT News Desk — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 21:30:14 +0000

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Nokia and Deutsche Telekom Begin Deployment of Multi-Vendor Open RAN Network in Germany

Nokia and Deutsche Telekom AG (DT) announced that they have begun to deploy a multi-vendor Open RAN network with Fujitsu in Germany. The technology is fully integrated into DT’s live commercial network and the initial cluster will provide 2G, 4G, and 5G commercial services to customers in the Neubrandenburg area of Northern Germany.

Accenture to Acquire Vocatus, Expanding Its Capabilities in Behavioral Pricing Strategies

Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire management consultancy Vocatus, which uses behavioral economics modeling to develop pricing strategies and sales concepts for business-to-business and business-to-consumer models. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

IAS Expands Total Media Quality Product to YouTube Shorts

Integral Ad Science, a leading global media measurement and optimization platform, announced an expansion of its measurement capabilities on YouTube. IAS will now offer its industry-leading brand safety and suitability measurement product to advertisers for YouTube Shorts inventory, as part of its existing Total Media Quality for YouTube product suite.

Bybit Launches Aurora AI: Revolutionizing Bot Trading for All Investors

Bybit, the world’s third-largest crypto exchange by volume, introduces Aurora AI, an advanced AI-powered recommendation tool designed to simplify and elevate the bot trading experience for investors at every skill level.

MathCo and LiveRamp Enter a Strategic Partnership to Redefine Data-Driven Marketing

TheMathCompany or MathCo, a global leader in Enterprise AI and analytics, announced its strategic partnership with LiveRamp, a leader in data collaboration. This exciting collaboration is poised to transform the landscape of analytics solutions for marketing functions within large enterprises.

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