“Tencent Cloud, the cloud computing arm of internet giant Tencent, is stepping up its artificial intelligence focus with an eye on the burgeoning growth, profit opportunities for the sector in China. The cloud computing service provider on Wednesday launched a series of new AI products that seek to lower the skill barriers for enterprise customers….
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How Retailers Like Tencent Are Optimizing Shopper Analytics With Behavioral Heat Mapping
“Innovative retailers have used in-store heatmapping, CCTV, floor sensors and more in order to determine shopper patterns, inform resource planning and ultimately improve the store experience: Tencent YouTu Lab x Intel YouBox is an intelligent analytics framework that retailers can apply to legacy cameras. DeepGaze provides retailers with information about how shoppers move around the…
Artificial Intelligence Stocks: The 10 Best AI Companies
“Progress in the field has been lightning fast – today, everybody who’s anybody in the Valley is racing to develop and use machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing and a range of other sub-fields to innovate and monetize. Already that race has seen intense jockeying for position, with early leaders and laggards swapping positions….
Walmart Tests Same-Day Grocery Delivery In China
“Walmart is piloting same-day grocery delivery in China via a new service called Walmart To Go. According to a report in TechCrunch, customers in China can access the service via a mini-program within WeChat, which is the messaging app owned by China’s Tencent. Walmart partnered with WeChat earlier in 2018 to tap that market of consumers.”…
Tencent says there are only 300,000 AI engineers worldwide, but millions are needed
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Tencent says there are only 300,000 AI engineers worldwide,but millions are needed “Tencent’s new “2017 Global AI Talent White Paper” suggests the bottleneck here is education. It estimates that 200,000 of the 300,000 active researchers are already employed in various industries (not just tech), while the remaining 100,000 are still…