Patents are the biggest weapon in the innovation race. And as artificial intelligence, blockchain and robotics explode this year, we’ll see far more patents filed, as companies look to be first movers and win in the years to come.
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How Amazon’s AI assault entangles 13 acquisitions, nearly 7,000 AI employees, a $22B R&D spend, extensive crowdsourcing and contests
By Jon Nordmark, CEO, co-founder @ Iterate.ai & eBags.com; Linkedin Top Voice 2017 Amazon’s AI activities are more extensive and complex than many journalists and research firms report. In addition, Amazon’s impact is immediate because Amazon has direct access to consumers via channels like Whole Foods, Echo Show, Echo Look, Amazon.com,
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Why Amazon is interested in bone conduction — the foundation of an in-store Chatbot
By Jon Nordmark, CEO, co-founder @ Iterate.ai & eBags.com; Linkedin Top Voice 2017 Amazon’s Lab126 is rumored to be working on bone conduction. It could be packaged in an “eyeglasses-attachment” or “headband” that speaks to you by vibrating the bones in your skull. It’s called bone conduction. Why? Read on LinkedIn
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Zero-Click: The Voice Battleground
With all the major players such as Amazon, Google and Apple releasing voice assistant home products, the home voice market is heating up and quickly gaining consumer adoption. A year ago, I had an Amazon Echo Dot. Now I have one in every room. I even have one retrofitted in
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Tech-Enabled Private Label… Amazon’s $20 billion business… a menacing new formula
By Jon Nordmark, CEO, co-founder @ Iterate.ai & eBags.com; Linkedin Top Voice 2017 Amazon’s Private Label Product (PLP) will grow 10-fold to $20 billion in revenues over the next five years … making PLP (alone) the size of a Fortune 150 company. Read on LinkedIn
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