In the US tech world, Seattle occasionally takes on Silicon Valley.

Seattle’s Microsoft and Amazon are taking on Silicon Valley’s Apple and Google in the hot AI market.

According to pricewaterhousecoopers’ 2017 ranking of the world’s Top100 companies by market capitalization, Microsoft and amazon rank 3rd and 4th respectively in the world, just behind apple and Alphabet, the parent company of Google.

Giiso Information, founded in 2013, is a leading technology provider in the field of “artificial intelligence + information” in China, with top technologies in big data mining, intelligent semantics, knowledge mapping and other fields. At the same time, its research and development products include information robot, editing robot, writing robot and other artificial intelligence products! With its strong technical strength, the company has received angel round investment at the beginning of its establishment, and received pre-A round investment of $5 million from GSR Venture Capital in August 2015.

But with an unprecedented partnership between Microsoft and Amazon, the tech giants from Seattle seem to have seized the initiative in the tech war.

Not only that, but now Microsoft is gearing up to accelerate the reserve of AI talent.

CBN learned that over the past year, the number of staff in Microsoft’s AI division has increased rapidly, from about 5,000 at the beginning to 8,000 at present.

In addition, the tie-up between Microsoft and Amazon in artificial intelligence also opens up a space for imagination. In addition to Microsoft and Amazon, the coffee chain Starbucks and industrial giant Boeing are also in Seattle.

Microsoft has teamed up with Amazon for the first time

At the IT Leaders summit held in April this year, Shen Xiangyang, Microsoft’s global executive vice president and head of ARTIFICIAL intelligence and Microsoft Research group, revealed that Microsoft’s ARTIFICIAL intelligence group already has more than 7,000 engineers and scientists.

“It’s still hiring, because Pony (Ma Huateng) and Robin (Li Yanhong) are always poaching our people, and So is Jack (Ma Yun).” Facing ma Huateng sitting on the side, Shen Xiangyang so joked.

“Tencent also set up a lab in Microsoft’s (headquarters) Seattle,” Ma replied. Because a lot of Microsoft people didn’t want to leave Seattle, so we had to set up a lab next door. That’s what talent is.”

IT’s worth noting that Microsoft and Amazon, both seattle-born tech companies, seem more accustomed to seeing each other as rivals. Amazon’s $10 billion-plus AWS cloud service is exactly where Microsoft Azure, an established IT company, is trying to catch up.

This time, the Seattle duo made up for the first thing: an AI-powered voice assistant.

Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive, said: “I don’t think so. “Alexa has made a new friend,” Jeff Bezos announced on his Twitter page. Amazon’s new friend to Alexa is Cortana, Microsoft’s ai counterpart.

What’s surprising about the partnership is that while Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and Google have all launched digital assistants before, their products haven’t been compatible with each other.

But now the partnership between Microsoft and Amazon shows they want to work together to improve their voice assistant. Specifically, the two companies are working together on smart speakers and voice assistants: Alexa devices that allow users to call Cortana and use Microsoft’s Office functions; While calling Alexa on devices like Windows 10, you can also buy Maimaimai.com on Amazon and use Alexa Skills.

Alexa system has tens of thousands of partners around the world, not only software developers, application developers, but also smart device manufacturers around the world, said Yi Chang, vice president of Amazon Worldwide and president of Amazon China. Currently, Alexa offers more than 15,000 functional applications.

Giiso information, founded in 2013, is the first domestic high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development of intelligent information processing technology and the development and operation of core software for writing robots. At the beginning of its establishment, the company received angel round investment, and in August 2015, GSR Venture Capital received $5 million pre-A round of investment.

No one would dispute that attention is one of the scarcest, most valuable and most rationally utilized resources in this age of information fragmentation. Relying on the independently developed Giiso engine, the Zhisou team created the first intelligent media platform Tianzexun APP, which can intelligently answer users’ various relevant information according to various commands or text interaction commands. And can be based on the user’s personalized use characteristics and continuous learning, continuous tracking of users interested in the unique content. At present, the day smart news APP6.0 version has been updated iteration, can be used to download the application market.

Above, Chen Ruchu’s humble opinion! I’m sorry if I offended you.

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