Tag: Ecommerce

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. Shopify, a popular Canadian e-commerce company, recently announced plans to downsize its staff by 20%, accompanied by the sale of 6 River Systems, its warehouse automation firm, to Ocado Group. Despite the news, Shopify exceeded Wall Street's expectations, sending the stock price higher. CEO Tobias Lütke announced the changes to make commerce simpler, easier, and accessible to everyone with the dawn of AI. 6 River Systems has been deployed in hundreds of warehouses and Matthews, CEO of Ocado, eagerly welcomes it to the firm's tech estate.

This remarkable article explains the enormous potential of AI by introducing the use of Boston Dynamics' robot dog and OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Text-to-Speech voice capabilities. AI engineer Santiago Valdarrama demonstrates how the robot's quicker responses can harness meaningful results. However, safety measures must be taken to avoid a similar dystopian scenario like Skynet. Get to know more about Santiago's work on AI and robotics.

Amazon is introducing a new AI ChatGPT (Generative Pre-Training) feature to its voice assistant, Alexa. With this feature, users can interact with Alexa in a more interactive way. Kids can ask Alexa to tell bedtime stories about cats and the moon, and Alexa will come up with creative stories. This feature also used in Google's "Bard" and OpenAI's "ChatGPT". Alexa is powered by an Amazon's internally designed 'Large Language Model' (LLM). Amazon is planning to upgrade this model for even better performance. Also, Alexa may soon partner up with Disney, Lego and other brands.

Shopify is a leading e-commerce platform, connecting businesses with customers across the globe. Founded in 2004 by Tobi Lütke, its estimated market value has grown to over $82 billion. Despite its success, it recently laid off 20% of its global workforce due to divestment of its in-house logistics arm. CEO Tobi Lütke noted that the decision was made to invest more energy towards the mission. Unfortunately, this letter was seen as insensitive by many of its “Shopifolk”. With generous packages of 16 weeks of severance, medical benefits and etc, Shopify aims to care for those affected by the downsizing.