Manufacturing Magazine - October 2021 | Page 130

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04 Top Three Features : high quality , flexibility rich information and decision making Revenue : US $ 41.7bn Founded : 1975

Bringing AI to every developer , Microsoft Azure AI helps businesses to innovate and accelerate with the help of powerful tools and services .
Microsoft offers users a portfolio of AI services such as computer vision to extract rich information from images to process and categorises visual data , language understanding to interpret human language and understand the intent , and text analytics API to recognise emotions in speech .

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Top Three Features : transparency , optimisation , and cost reduction Revenue : US $ 73.6bn Founded : 1998
IBM Watson , ‘ AI for smarter business ’. IBM platform offers a portfolio of business-ready tools , applications , and solutions to allow users to reduce costs and hurdles of AI adoption while optimising outcomes and responsible AI . IBM Watson breaks its features down into four categories :
• Trust - transparent processes with AI Led insights , data privacy and compliance , with an open and diverse ecosystem .
• Language - understanding a business ’ s language with natural language processing , analysing complex unstructured data , computer code , and industryspecific jargon .
• Automation - streamline how a business operates and yields leaps in productivity . Intelligently automate almost any work .
• Anywhere - working securely on the cloud bringing AI to data wherever it is .
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