Earlier in the series, we discussed Salesforce's (CRM) operating segments' performance in its recently announced fiscal 2Q17 results. In its earnings release, Salesforce announced the introduction of "Salesforce Einstein," an AI (Artificial Intelligence) platform, at its upcoming annual 2016 Dreamforce conference. According to Salesforce, Einstein is "the world's first comprehensive artificial intelligence platform for CRM." The Salesforce Einstein platform has its foundation in different acquisitions the company has made in the past like RelateIQ, MetaMind, Implisit Insights, PredictionIO, and Tempo, as the above chart shows. Salesforce stated, "We've been able to stitch all this together and focus on AI. AI is the next wave of our industry and has resulted in a machine learning team of more than 175 data scientists who have built this amazing Einstein platform."

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) was a PC graphics chip company who has matured into a specialized platform company who targets primarily four markets (Gaming, Professional Visualization, Data Center and Automotive), continuing to provide cutting edge visual computing solutions. The company consists of two reporting operating segments, GPU and Tegra Processor. While GPU remains the core strength of NVDA, the company's significant and consistent investment in research and development has been the key driver of sales that have grown from just over 4B in FY14 to an estimated 7B in FY17. NVDA remains the market leader in gaming with key growth contributions coming from professional visualization, deep learning and automotive. In gaming, only one third of the active GeForce users have upgraded to Maxwell with Pascal starting to ship in FQ2, meaning there is substantial scope for future uptake during an upgrade cycle.

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Tech giant Microsoft has acquired artificial intelligence (AI)-based scheduling service Genee that simplifies the scheduling and rescheduling of large group meetings for companies. Microsoft will integrate the AI technology into Office 365 before shutting down Genee. Co-founders Ben Cheung and Charles Lee, who plan to join Microsoft, started Genee in 2014 to simplify the time-consuming task of scheduling (and rescheduling) meetings. "It is especially useful for large groups and for when you don't have access to someone's calendar," Jha added. Genee uses natural language processing and optimised decision-making algorithms so that interacting with a virtual assistant is just like interacting with a human one.

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Salesforce.com Inc. CEO has revealed the company is building a new artificial intelligence (AI) product called "Einstein," in a lengthy interview with Forbes. The article says that Salesforce's Einstein project is the reason why the company decided to shell out a massive 390 million to acquire responsive-email firm Relate IQ and its CEO Steve Loughlin almost two years ago. In addition, the project also explains why Salesforce has acquired no less than six AI-related startups in the last couple of years. "If this is not the next big thing, I don't know what is," Benioff told Forbes' writer Alex Konrad. The article portrays Benioff as a highly successful and hyper-energetic CEO who's built one of the fastest growing and most innovative tech firms around, seeking new innovation to drive the next stage of the company's growth.

For NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) shareholders, the past year has been fantastic. The stock has soared 190%, with all of the company's segments firing on all cylinders. The core graphics card business is booming, with PC gaming proving to be a bright spot in an otherwise dismal PC market. Enterprise use of NVIDIA's products is growing fast, with cloud computing companies turning to NVIDIA's Tesla GPUs to enable deep learning and artificial intelligence applications. Sales to the automotive industry are rising as well, with NVIDIA's automotive platforms gaining momentum.

Microsoft Corp. on Monday said it has agreed to buy Genee, a "smart" scheduling app, as the company continues its effort to embed AI in all of its digital experiences. Rajesh Jha, vice president of Microsoft's Outlook and Office 365 business, said in a blog post that the acquisition will help "further our ambition to bring intelligence into every digital experience" as it builds new Office 365 productivity capabilities and services. Powered by AI, Genee could be used to enhance Microsoft's own virtual assistant, Cortana, which competes with Alphabet's Google Now and Apple Inc.'s Siri. By reading users' emails, Cortana can track packages and set reminders based on location, and other tasks. With Genee, it would be able to automatically set up business meetings by recognizing key phrases in emails. Both Google Now and Siri can interact with calendars to coordinate meetings on command, said Mike Gualtieri, a principal analyst at Forrester Research.

Tech giant Microsoft has acquired artificial intelligence (AI)-based scheduling service Genee that simplifies the scheduling and rescheduling of large group meetings for companies. Microsoft will integrate the AI technology into Office 365 before shutting down Genee. Co-founders Ben Cheung and Charles Lee, who plan to join Microsoft, started Genee in 2014 to simplify the time-consuming task of scheduling (and rescheduling) meetings. "It's especially useful for large groups and for when you don't have access to someone's calendar," Jha added. Genee uses natural language processing and optimised decision-making algorithms so that interacting with a virtual assistant is just like interacting with a human one.