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Amazon to spend $1 billion on startups that combine AI with robots (arstechnica.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Amazon’s $1 billion industrial innovation fund is to step up investments in companies that combine artificial intelligence and robotics, as the ecommerce giant seeks to drive efficiencies across its logistics network.

Franziska Bossart, head of the corporate venture capital arm that was set up in 2022, told the Financial Times that “generative AI holds a lot of promise for robotics and automation” and is an area “we are going to focus on this year.”

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why not both? It can always be both of them.