Weekly News about Analytics and AI

Here are the top 5 stories making the round from this week for all things analytics and artificial intelligence news

Summary of Weekly News about Analytics and AI

Accenture has acquired Nextira, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Partner, in a move to expand its engineering capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Nextira's platform engineering expertise and AI and ML services will enable Accenture to embed AI capabilities into the rapidly growing number of applications and services built on AWS. The acquisition is part of Accenture's Cloud First strategy, which aims to help clients take advantage of the full continuum of cloud capabilities and tools.

IBM launched Watsonx, a new platform that provides businesses with access to next-generation AI foundation models. Watsonx includes an AI development studio, a data store, and a toolkit for governance of AI. The platform is designed to make AI easier to adapt and scale for businesses.

The Precision Cancer Consortium (PCC), a collaboration of several global biopharmaceutical companies, has partnered with Massive Bio, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) analytics company specializing in precision oncology. The partnership will utilize Massive Bio's AI analytics tools to optimize clinical trial matching for cancer patients worldwide. Massive Bio's AI platform will analyze patient data to identify the most relevant clinical trials for each patient, and will also provide personalized recommendations for treatment options. The partnership is expected to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical trial matching, and to help more cancer patients access the latest treatments.

SAS, a global leader in artificial intelligence and analytics, has been named a Leader in AI Decisioning Platforms by Forrester. The Forrester Wave™: AI Decisioning Platforms, Q2 2023 evaluated the industry's 13 most significant AI decisioning technology providers, assessing and ranking them based on 23 evaluation criteria. SAS was praised for its comprehensive data capabilities, decision intelligence technologies, user experience, breadth of authoring tools, and ModelOps. According to the 2023 Forrester Wave for AI Decisioning Platforms, SAS leverages its already formidable AI capabilities to offer enterprises sophisticated and easy-to-use AI decisioning platforms.

BHP and Microsoft have partnered to use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve copper recovery at BHP's Escondida mine in Chile. The project, which is still in the early stages, uses AI to analyze real-time data from the mine's concentrators to identify opportunities to improve efficiency and productivity. If successful, the project could help BHP to increase copper recovery at Escondida by up to 5%. The use of AI in the mining industry is still in its early stages, but it has the potential to revolutionize the way that mines operate. By using AI to analyze data and identify opportunities for improvement, mines can become more efficient, productive, and profitable.

And that covers this week of Weekly News about Analytics and AI