Walmart experiments with generative AI tools that can help you plan a party or decorate
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 4, 2023
After launching a generative AI tool for corporate employees in August, Walmart is bringing the technology to its customers.
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Unlocking the full potential of enterprise AI
CIO
JANUARY 5, 2025
Despite the huge promise surrounding AI, many organizations are finding their implementations are not delivering as hoped. 1] The limits of siloed AI implementations According to SS&C Blue Prism , an expert on AI and automation, the chief issue is that enterprises often implement AI in siloes.
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Research: Businesses optimistic as they deploy generative AI
CIO
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Respondents represent 12 industries, among them banking, investment and insurance, manufacturing, automotive, retail, healthcare and the public sector. Of these respondents, 98% had direct authority or influence over GenAI buying decisions.
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Inside Walmart’s generative AI journey
CIO
OCTOBER 19, 2023
“Our people make the difference” — a common catchphrase of Walmart founder Sam Walton — still guides the company’s path forward as it ventures into the future with generative AI. The move places Walmart among a handful of companies (aside from tech giants) that have leveraged generative AI at scale.
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Research: Businesses optimistic as they deploy generative AI
CIO
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Respondents represent 12 industries, among them banking, investment and insurance, manufacturing, automotive, retail, healthcare and the public sector. Of these respondents, 98% had direct authority or influence over GenAI buying decisions.
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10 generative AI certs and certificate programs to grow your skills
CIO
MAY 30, 2024
Generative AI is poised to disrupt nearly every industry, and IT professionals with highly sought after gen AI skills are in high demand, as companies seek to harness the technology for various digital and operational initiatives.
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3 ways Generative AI is transforming the retail industry
CIO
MAY 2, 2023
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as Azure OpenAI have been drawing attention in recent months, and there is widespread consensus that these technologies can significantly transform the retail industry. How can Generative AI speed innovation in retail?
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Ethics of generative AI: To be innovative, you must first be trustworthy
CIO
JUNE 13, 2024
Over the past year, generative AI – artificial intelligence that creates text, audio, and images – has moved from the “interesting concept” stage to the deployment stage for retail, healthcare, finance, and other industries. On today’s most significant ethical challenges with generative AI deployments….
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10 most in-demand generative AI skills
CIO
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
If any technology has captured the collective imagination in 2023, it’s generative AI — and businesses are beginning to ramp up hiring for what in some cases are very nascent gen AI skills, turning at times to contract workers to fill gaps, pursue pilots, and round out in-house AI project teams.
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Uber branches out into AI data labeling
CIO
NOVEMBER 28, 2024
Scaled Solutions grew out of the company’s own needs for data annotation, testing, and localization, and is now ready to offer those services to enterprises in retail, automotive and autonomous vehicles, social media, consumer apps, generative AI, manufacturing, and customer support.
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Generative AI: the Shortcut to Digital Modernisation
CIO
DECEMBER 20, 2023
THE BOOM OF GENERATIVE AI Digital transformation is the bleeding edge of business resilience. Notably, organisations are now turning to Generative AI to navigate the rapidly evolving tech landscape. Notably, organisations are now turning to Generative AI to navigate the rapidly evolving tech landscape.
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The bigger the better? Approaching Generative AI by size
CIO
OCTOBER 3, 2024
As the Generative AI (GenAI) hype continues, we’re seeing an uptick of real-world, enterprise-grade solutions in industries from healthcare and finance, to retail and media. But beyond industry, however, there are factors that play into the success or failure of Generative AI projects.
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5 Things To Look For When Evaluating AI Startups
Crunchbase News
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
By Bob Ma According to a report by McKinsey , generative AI could have an economic impact of $2.6 Bob Ma of Copec Wind Ventures AI’s eye-popping potential has given rise to numerous enterprise generative AI startups focused on applying large language model technology to the enterprise context. trillion to $4.4
Rocket Mortgage lays foundation for generative AI success
CIO
MARCH 29, 2024
That’s why Rocket Mortgage has been a vigorous implementor of machine learning and AI technologies — and why CIO Brian Woodring emphasizes a “human in the loop” AI strategy that will not be pinned down to any one generative AI model. Artificial Intelligence, Data Management, Digital Transformation, Generative AI
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Amazon is testing shopping, health assistants as it pushes deeper into generative AI
Ooda Loop
MARCH 26, 2025
Amazon, in an effort to infuse generative artificial intelligence across a wider swath of its e-commerce universe, recently began testing a shopping assistant and a health-focused chatbot with a subset of users.
Deep tech disruption: How advanced technologies are transforming businesses
CIO
MARCH 4, 2025
For example, generative AI went from research milestone to widespread business adoption in barely a year. An IDC study found that usage of generative AI jumped from 55% of surveyed companies in 2023 to 75% in 2024. In other words, AI helps in both growing the business and running it more efficiently.
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SAP to add generative AI, industry smarts to CX tools
CIO
MAY 16, 2023
Every software developer is looking at how to incorporate generative AI in its products, even SAP. The ERP vendor, which turned 50 last year , is developing a companion app for its software, to be called SAP Digital Assistant, which will use generative AI to help SAP users provide a better experience to their customers.
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Enterprises enthusiastic about generative AI, Foundry survey shows
CIO
AUGUST 2, 2023
Generative AI is already making deep inroads into the enterprise, but not always under IT department control, according to a recent survey of business and IT leaders by Foundry, publisher of CIO.com. That leaves just 1% that has either checked out generative AI and dismissed it, or have no plans to use it at all.
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Enterprise IT moves forward — cautiously — with generative AI
CIO
MARCH 7, 2023
Vince Kellen understands the well-documented limitations of ChatGPT, DALL-E and other generative AI technologies — that answers may not be truthful, generated images may lack compositional integrity, and outputs may be biased — but he’s moving ahead anyway. Generative AI can facilitate that.
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AI Startup Writer Authors $200M Round At $1.9B Valuation
Crunchbase News
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
San Francisco-based Writer locked up a $200 million Series C that values the enterprise-focused generative AI platform at $1.9 Writer’s platform is designed to help businesses use large language models to improve workflows and offers AI solutions that can execute complex enterprise operations across systems and teams.
Generative AI usage gains traction among enterprises: McKinsey
CIO
AUGUST 1, 2023
The usage of generative AI across enterprises is already widespread, although it is still early days for the new technology, according to a report from McKinsey’s AI consulting service, Quantum Black. Nearly 22% of the respondents said they are using generative AI for their work.
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AI at the retail edge: What’s new, and what’s coming soon
CIO
APRIL 11, 2024
There’s been an absolute explosion of interest in AI, especially generative AI (GenAI), in the last year. Simultaneously, increases in compute power have made it easier to implement AI use cases at the retail edge. That’s a perfect opportunity for some long-awaited retail use cases to turn prime time.
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Software vendors offer AI sales boost for retail at NRF show
CIO
JANUARY 15, 2024
As they take stock after the year-end frenzy of shopping the holiday season always brings, retail CIOs attending the National Retail Federation’s annual show, NRF 2024, may be wondering how they can improve their IT systems’ performance over the next 12 months. year on year in the first 11 months of 2023, AI or no AI.
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Shop Till Your AI Bot Drops
Crunchbase News
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Online retailers get this, which is why they offer both addictively scrollable listings and very fast checkout. With the rise of generative AI, both types of shoppers look poised to see new tools that make the experience more enjoyable or efficient. When shopping becomes work, why not outsource it to an AI bot?
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By enabling “ask and expert” capabilities, generative AI like Microsoft Copilot will transform manufacturing
CIO
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Manufacturers are increasingly looking to generative AI as a potential solution to these and other challenges. Research from Avanade , a technology expert that specialises in the Microsoft ecosystem and partner solutions, suggests that 92% of manufacturers aim to be AI-first within a year. Generative AI, Innovation
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AI in action: Stories of how enterprises are transforming and modernizing
CIO
MARCH 20, 2025
AI is no longer just a tool, said Vishal Chhibbar, chief growth officer at EXL. Accelerating modernization As an example of this transformative potential, EXL demonstrated Code Harbor , its generative AI (genAI)-powered code migration tool. Its a driver of transformation.
PagerDuty seeks to ease incident response with generative AI
CIO
MAY 22, 2024
He gave an example of a large retailer experiencing an unexpected shutdown of all shopping carts. Rende said that one of the better additions is PageDuty Copilot’s enablement of natural conversation interactions. IR managers “could create a virtual war room via a Slack channel. Someone could ask, ‘What just changed?’”
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Generative AI copilots are your productivity rocket boosters
CIO
MARCH 19, 2024
So much digital ink has been spilled regarding how generative AI is a first-class productivity booster. You pick the industry, but retail probably makes the most sense. Learn more about how Dell Generative AI Solutions. 2024 Generative AI Picture a Starbucks mobile app or something similar.
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5 methods to adopt responsible generative AI practice at work
CIO
APRIL 5, 2023
Midjourney, ChatGPT, Bing AI Chat, and other AI tools that make generative AI accessible have unleashed a flood of ideas, experimentation and creativity. Here are five key areas where it’s worth considering generative AI, plus guidance on finding other appropriate scenarios.
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20 issues shaping generative AI strategies today
CIO
JULY 31, 2023
Organizations are rushing to figure out how to extract business value from generative AI — without falling prey to the myriad pitfalls arising. They note, too, that CIOs — being top technologists within their organizations — will be running point on those concerns as companies establish their gen AI strategies.
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Generative AI is pushing unstructured data to center stage
CIO
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Advances in AI, particularly generative AI, have made deriving value from unstructured data easier. Yet IDC says that “master data and transactional data remain the highest percentages of data types processed for AI/ML solutions across geographies.” What’s different now? What’s hiding in your unstructured data?
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Should you build or buy generative AI?
CIO
JULY 14, 2023
Whether it’s text, images, video or, more likely, a combination of multiple models and services, taking advantage of generative AI is a ‘when, not if’ question for organizations. Since the release of ChatGPT last November, interest in generative AI has skyrocketed.
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AI will evolve the role of the CIO
CIO
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
He urges CIOs to use all available visualization tools to educate the board on AI and explain how generative AI processes data, much of which comes from the often inaccurate or unreliable public internet. Secondly, the software is getting better, and thirdly, there is a lot of data available.
Enhance customer support with Amazon Bedrock Agents by integrating enterprise data APIs
AWS Machine Learning - AI
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Generative AI has transformed customer support, offering businesses the ability to respond faster, more accurately, and with greater personalization. AI agents , powered by large language models (LLMs), can analyze complex customer inquiries, access multiple data sources, and deliver relevant, detailed responses.
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Unleashing the multimodal power of Amazon Bedrock Data Automation to transform unstructured data into actionable insights
AWS Machine Learning - AI
MARCH 20, 2025
Gartner predicts that by 2027, 40% of generative AI solutions will be multimodal (text, image, audio and video) by 2027, up from 1% in 2023. The McKinsey 2023 State of AI Report identifies data management as a major obstacle to AI adoption and scaling.
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Building Generative AI prompt chaining workflows with human in the loop
AWS Machine Learning - AI
MAY 17, 2024
Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that can be used to create new content, including conversations, stories, images, videos, and music. Like all AI, generative AI works by using machine learning models—very large models that are pretrained on vast amounts of data called foundation models (FMs).
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Build generative AI chatbots using prompt engineering with Amazon Redshift and Amazon Bedrock
AWS Machine Learning - AI
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
With the advent of generative AI solutions, organizations are finding different ways to apply these technologies to gain edge over their competitors. Amazon Bedrock offers a choice of high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies, including AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Stability AI, and Amazon, via a single API.
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Your guide to generative AI and ML at AWS re:Invent 2023
AWS Machine Learning - AI
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Now all you need is some guidance on generative AI and machine learning (ML) sessions to attend at this twelfth edition of re:Invent. And although generative AI has appeared in previous events, this year we’re taking it to the next level. Use the “Generative AI” tag as you are browsing the session catalog to find them.
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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of November: xAI And Anthropic Raise Billions Again
Crunchbase News
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Last month, xAI and Anthropic raised a combined $9 billion as AI funding remained red-hot. xAI , $5B, artificial intelligence: Generative AI startup xAI raised $5 billion in a round valuing it at $50 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported. Other sectors, including IT management and robotics, also saw big rounds.
Achieve operational excellence with well-architected generative AI solutions using Amazon Bedrock
AWS Machine Learning - AI
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Large enterprises are building strategies to harness the power of generative AI across their organizations. Managing bias, intellectual property, prompt safety, and data integrity are critical considerations when deploying generative AI solutions at scale.
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How search accelerates your path to “AI first”
CIO
MARCH 26, 2025
In response, modern search systems have made great leaps in the accuracy, relevancy, and usefulness of results by leveraging AI-based capabilities. Now, a new wave of AI generative AI (GenAI) is changing how forward-looking organizations approach search, knowledge management, and other forms of knowledge discovery.
Research: Businesses optimistic as they deploy generative AI
CIO
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Respondents represent 12 industries, among them banking, investment and insurance, manufacturing, automotive, retail, healthcare and the public sector. Of these respondents, 98% had direct authority or influence over GenAI buying decisions.
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Top tech trends powering the Middle East’s digital evolution by 2025
CIO
JANUARY 6, 2025
AI and Machine Learning will drive innovation across the government, healthcare, and banking/financial services sectors, strongly focusing on generative AI and ethical regulation. The shift to personalized customer experiences will fuel investments in AI, logistics, and payment solutions in the retail sector.
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