The Big Picture

An AI future as seen through Chinese retail

  • China
  • 2 min read
  • Jul 12, 2018
  • By Wang Xiao'e

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Retail provides a good contemporary case study for how an AI future might look in China

The retail sector has real market needs for AI: retailers want precise marketing, intelligent management, optimized supply chains and unmanned convenience stores. Customers long for a better shopping experience.
Setting their sights on these wants, AI startups have come up with tailored solutions or products to serve the market either by making moves on their own or by cooperating with partner retailers.
China’s unmanned store startup BingoBox recently unveiled its new solution “Fan AI,” which replaced the old radio-frequency identification tags with cameras powered b...

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