“London-based menswear ecommerce startup Thread has set out to make styling much easier for male consumers and just received 3 million dollars from H&M to do so. The H&M Group’s investment arm, H&M CO:LAB has funded many innovative fashion startups that focus on technological or sustainable initiatives, such as Aday and Worn Again.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/fashionunited.uk/news/fashion/h-m-invests-in-ai-ecommerce-site/2018101739502/amp
Tag: Brandon McGee
Deep learning and local maximums for recommendation engines
I wouldn’t consider this “light reading” but it’s super interesting to understand and consider. “The clearest example of how that works is the increasingly ubiquitous recommendation engine. Almost every ecommerce site now lists other products that a visitor might be interested in while looking at an individual product. Figuring that those recommendations is an optimization…
eCommerce and Department Store Productivity
“As is clear from the chart above, online shopping is shattering ceilings. And the disruption runs deeper than productivity, says Stern’s Kleinberger. Big-box stores also aren’t aligned with how younger consumers shop, he says. In a March 2017 eMarketer survey, 78% of 18-29 year-olds said they prefer to shop online. Online shopping has only 9% of the overall…
CB Insights AI 100 for 2018
“The AI 100 recognizes the teams and technologies that are successfully using AI to solve big challenges…Last year’s AI 100 enjoyed amazing success in the year since earning this recognition. 55 of them went on to raise additional funding nearing $2B and 5 were acquired.” Full list: https://www.cbinsights.com/research-ai-100
AI tool that it can produce 20,000 lines of content a second
“Alibaba has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that it says can produce up to 20,000 lines of content a second, helping merchants on its retail sites generate product information without humans. According to Alibaba, merchants and marketers on its e-commerce sites including Taobao, Tmall, Mei.com, and 1699.com have used the copywriting tool, on average,…