Smart foundations: Why investment in AI and cloud go hand-in-hand

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A long established – yet not wholly understood – term, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being applied to any industry you can name, writes Alibaba Cloud EMEA General Manager Yeming Wang

From retail to finance, manufacturing to healthcare, AI is touted as a game-changer and the answer to any number of problems.

This hype is driving real change: worldwide spending on cognitive and AI systems is expected to increase at an annual growth rate of 50% through 2021.

The broadcast and media sector is just one area in which the impact of AI is being felt. In part, the rise of AI has been down to the industry’s forward-thinking adoption of cloud computing, with many of the new generation businesses being cloud-native.

With a more powerful and agile infrastructure, AI has been able to thrive. Broadcast organisations are…

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