Artificial Intelligence to Reach a New Level With Infusion of Blockchain Technology Innovation - Seite 2

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Overstock.com Inc. (NASDAQ:OSTK) finished Wednesday up 1.35% with a volume north of 1.3 million. The company also announced it has been selected to deliver a keynote address during the world's largest Apache Spark event, the Spark + AI Summit taking place in San Francisco from June 4-6. Chris Robison, lead data scientist at Overstock, has been instrumental in building the leading artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to achieve real-time personalization at Overstock. He will present on martech innovations in building a successful marketing technology infrastructure for instantaneous individualized marketing experiences. "I'm honored to showcase our team's work at the Spark + AI Summit," said Robison., "Our team is filled with some of the industry's leading minds, focused on creating cutting-edge technology. What we have built, with tools like Databricks, brings millisecond speeds to personalization." Robison is part of a keynote speaker lineup that features presenters from companies at the cutting-edge of technology.

Xunlei Limited (NASDAQ:XNET) recently announced it has launched StellarCloud and ThunderChain Open Platform to build a blockchain ecosystem in a product introduction ceremony held in Beijing on May 16, 2018. The StellarCloud is a shared cloud computing platform which will expand Xunlei's existing Content Delivery Network (CDN) services to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). It also offers edge computing, function computing and shared CDN (SCDN) solutions. The StellarCloud is created to help companies in their transition to cloud, including content delivery, live streaming, data storage and artificial intelligence (AI). During the ceremony, iQIYI (Nasdaq: IQ), an innovative market-leading online entertainment service in China, entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with Xunlei with respect to the StellarCloud. The ThunderChain is a high-performance blockchain infrastructure that can concurrently process over a million transactions per second (TPS). Now with the ThunderChain Open Platform, third-party developers and companies, especially start-ups, can easily build, migrate and manage decentralized applications (DApps) with low operating costs.