Tag: Machine Learning

“Alexa revolutionized daily convenience as we know it,” explained Rohit Prasad, VP & Head Scientist for Amazon Alexa, Nov. 5 at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon, Portugal. “The cognitive load shifted from customers to AI. You talk, Alexa answers back.”

Analysts estimate that by 2021, videos will account for over 80% of consumer internet traffic. To stand out companies and brands will need to maximize the value of their content and understand how a story, a posting, a video can be optimized to leverage consumers interest. Identifying and owning the relevant data to achieve this is just the first step in the new workflow. Aiconix, named one of the 30 most promising startups in the German speaking regions by Forbes magazine, is doing just that.

At Transifex, we’re constantly asking ourselves what building products can look like when localization becomes an integrated part of the standard developer stack and agile workflows. What technology do we need to enable companies to go global from day one?

SupWiz uses advanced AI technology to help companies deliver improved customer service to millions of people across the world. Co-founder and Chief AI Officer Søren Dahlgaard explains.

China and US-based startup Castbox, unofficially known as the Netflix of podcasts, allows users to stream live podcasts, engage with speakers, and upload their own premium content. Founder and CEO Renee Wang explains how the app works, who its main users are, and where she sees the podcast industry heading in the future.

Volara – led by David Berger as its CEO and Founder – is building voice interfaces for leading hotel technologies, while providing hotels the software to manage conversations with their guests at scale.

In 2013, Luther Birdzell formed OAG Analytics to create an AI platform that enables oil and gas companies to use more of their data to help solve critical problems like well spacing. Today, the OAG-Amazon SageMaker integration enables customers to unify their datasets and create proprietary analyses using virtually unlimited compute.

For hawk:AI, many of the fraud challenges the financial industry faces can be overcome with the power of AWS machine learning.

Nowadays, hardly a week goes by without fresh news of the struggles of media companies to adapt to the daunting economic landscape of the digital age. To face this challenge, iVideoSmart (IVS), a 3 year old startup based in Singapore, proposes an advertising business model based on the selling power of video.

Wealth management chatbot Cleo’s users use a colloquial style to communicate with her, much as if they were talking to a friend, and it’s important that Cleo understands and responds helpfully. Their team explains how SageMaker helps.