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Silicon Valley AI Startups, and how they sell to firms like Amazon, Google and Walmart

Leave a Comment / AI, Amazon, Automation, Brookings, Deep learning, Google, Investing, Machine Learning, Silicon Valley, Talent, Team liftout, Technology, Walmart / By Daniel Enskat

Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman first met at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and, while getting advanced computer science degrees at Stanford (and sharing an office with Sergey Brin), founded Junglee, a shopping search engine enabling customers to search for products from online and offline retailers in India, in 1996 (later bringing on two …

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Facebook hires Chief Data Scientist, Google hires Technical AI Director – both let them continue with consulting and research efforts: Flexicurity for AI Stars.

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When Mark Zuckerberg last year hired Xin Fu as Head of Data Science from LinkedIn, the most interesting aspect for us was that he is letting him continue to be an advisor to Didi Chuxing’s CTO and Lynk Global’s CEO. Similarly, Google recently hired Amazon’s Senior Director for Alexa AI, Ashwin Ram, as Technical Director …

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JP Morgan Hires Senior Director for Data Science from SalesForce in AI Hiring Push

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As said earlier this week, JP Morgan is continuously ramping up AI hiring efforts. Two months ago they snapped up the Chief Data Officer from Salesforce for their west coast AI efforts. Asset Management and AI, just the beginning… Naren Chittar sold his four staff company MinHash to Salesforce and joined the company as Senior …

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Amazon R2D2-esque AI Bot, Scout, Starting Deliveries in Washington

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Meet Scout, the little R2D2esque AI box on wheels that is now making deliveries in Snohomish County, Washington, for Amazon. It will have a human with it in the beginning as the system is tested, but then Scout is on its own. Soon in a neighborhood near you, thanks to AI.