Artificial Intelligence
TCM Leapfrogs E-commerce Aggregator Gold Rush with “Super Brain” AI Technology
Brings unique ability to maximize wealth creation for investors and online store owners
HERZLIYA PITAUCH, Israel, Feb. 24, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Technology Commerce Management (TCM) today revealed the company is harnessing the e-commerce aggregator industry’s most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology to achieve unmatched predictive value analysis and financial performance of online stores. Using its proprietary Super Brain™ technology, TCM identifies, acquires and optimizes e-commerce businesses, offering the highest empirical probability of maximizing wealth creation and ROI for all stakeholders.
Other e-commerce aggregators rely on online-store sellers pitching them for possible acquisition and value the companies based on “old world” market profit multiples. In contrast, TCM leapfrogs its competitors with a first-mover advantage that allows the company to generate in-depth niche-by-niche predictive valuations and scoop up the market’s gems before others can even start a conversation. TCM achieves this with its proprietary AI models that use big data, ML and Deep Learning (DL) to quickly evaluate trends and opportunities for e-commerce businesses and products, offering the highest certainty of exceptional future performance and profits.
Additionally, while other e-commerce aggregators focus almost exclusively on acquiring Amazon third-party sellers, TCM technology uniquely allows the company to identify acquisition opportunities in both Amazon and off-Amazon stores hosted on platforms like Shopify, eBay, and Magento.
“TCM takes a unique approach to e-commerce aggregation,” said Gabi Bar, co-founder and executive vice president of TCM. “Our Super Brain identifies the best e-commerce sites to acquire and generates a complete in-depth analysis and valuation before each acquisition, giving us and our investors a powerful strategic and financial advantage.”
Once an e-commerce store is identified for acquisition, TCM immediately provides business sellers with precise analyses of their business value to facilitate smooth and fast acquisition transactions, in some cases signing deals within a few days. When acquired, TCM’s Super Brain AI models also suggest potential growth vectors and forecast demand for products, brands and categories. It goes on to provide advanced performance analytics, a fully automated advertising platform, real-time alerts, inventory predictions, and off-Amazon advertising and promotional automated tools. TCM’s comprehensive e-commerce dashboards provide a view into day-to-day operations, automate daily actions and track financial performance with actionable alerts. As a result of TCM’s technology and ecosystem, marginal operating profit for TCM online stores averaged 27 percent in 2020.
“Our values-based business philosophy is also unique,” continued Bar. “We believe that powerful technology, aggressive business practices, leadership belief systems and principled ethics must all co-exist in order to create and sustain the greatest of businesses.”
TCM conducts all its business through its value-driven technological ecosystem. The company applies its proprietary belief system called Lead To Results™ (L2R™) to empower its global staff to achieve maximum outcome for TCM’s brands. By applying the company’s technology to acquire, manage and amplify e-commerce businesses, TCM creates wealth for its e-commerce stores, partners, investors and staff. With corporate social responsibility at the heart of its business values, TCM has also created multiple programs that enable youth at risk, as well as people with disabilities and recently those who lost their jobs due to COVID-19 economic crises, to share in the abundant prosperity of the e-commerce market.
In a market growing at an annual average rate of 21.6 percent with $5 trillion in online sales forecast for 2021, TCM is ideally positioned with more than 170 employees worldwide and a track record of organic growth since 2016, distinguishing it as a veritable pioneer in this nascent market. In Q4 2020, TCM closed an $18 million round of private funding (pre-IPO) with large institutions and high-net worth individuals participating as well as $10 million in debt to facilitate the acquisition of 10 e-commerce business with eight based in the U.S. The company is currently raising another round of funding and has signed with Canaccord Genuity, an investment banking firm in Australia, to lead an Initial Public Offering later this year.
TCM also recently appointed Spiro Pappas as executive chairperson ahead of the listing. With over 30 years’ international experience in banking and finance, Mr. Pappas just resigned from serving as the chairman of Splitit (ASX: SPT), the first Israeli company to be included in the ASX All Tech Index.
About TCM
Technology Commerce Management (TCM) delivers the e-commerce aggregator industry’s first predictive, AI-driven e-commerce performance optimization. Using a combination of big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), TCM identifies, acquires and optimizes e-commerce businesses with the highest empirical probability of maximizing wealth creation and ROI for all stakeholders. Founded in 2016 and based in Israel, TCM now operates e-commerce businesses on Amazon, Shopify, eBay, Magento, Kogen, Catch, Walmart, Wayfair, WooCommerce and more. Learn more about TCM at www.tcmdigital.com and follow TCM on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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Forum Systems Releases GenAI Productivity-Risk Framework and two Fine-tuned Models for Enterprise Customers
Announcing a framework to balance productivity and risk for enterprise deployments of GenAI models and releasing two fine-tuned models—Mistral QS-Sentry and Llama 3 QS-Sentry—with optimized productivity-risk profiles
Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2024, LONDON, May 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Forum Systems, a leader in LLM and API technologies, today announced the public release of two language models fine-tuned to optimize their productivity-risk profile from the Gartner® Data & Analytics Summit 2024. The research is discussed at length in two recent articles, Framework for LLM Selection by Balancing Model Risk with Workforce Productivity and Improving Productivity-Risk Profile through LLM Fine-tuning. This groundbreaking work presents a framework for balancing productivity and risk in GenAI deployments, an urgent question among business leaders today.
“LLMs security has its tradeoffs. More restrictive models will be safer but may hamper productivity. If enterprises aren’t measuring the productivity-risk balance of their models, they are in the dark about whether they’ve achieved an optimal tradeoff,” remarked Mamoon Yunus, CEO of Forum Systems. He continued, “classic machine learning metrics like precision and recall can serve as proxies for productivity and risk. Fine-tuning on extensive manual multi-vote labeled data, our LLMs show superior performance compared to base models.”
The fine-tuned models—Mistral QS-Sentry and Llama 3 QS-Sentry—are based on Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 and Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct.
In the first article, Forum Systems developed a framework for balancing risk and productivity and assessed the productivity-risk profile of Mistral and Llama 3 before fine-tuning. It found that, when asked to classify prompts as either safe or unsafe, Mistral was more precise and thus aligned with higher productivity, while Llama 3 was more restrictive and thus aligned with lower risk.
The second article analyzed the models after they were fine-tuned on a hand-curated dataset of about 20,000 prompts. The study showed that the productivity-risk profile of both models can see meaningful improvements after fine-tuning. Forum Systems has released both fine-tuned models on Hugging Face to contribute to the broader community of researchers and those working in AI governance and AI alignment, believing its framework for analyzing the trade-offs between productivity will also prove valuable to business leaders deploying safe and effective GenAI offerings.
As Gartner analyst Arun Chandrasekaran recently stated, “Generative AI (GenAI) has the potential to transform businesses across industries. Most business and technology leaders believe that the benefits of GenAI far outweigh its risks.” He recommends, “Put responsible AI at the heart of your generative efforts. Promote harmonious interaction among humans and machines with design thinking and by incorporating human feedback into GenAI applications.” Forum Systems agrees with Chandrasekaran’s analysis and recommendation. Its work in optimizing productivity-risk profiles of small models demonstrates that enterprise-class responsible AI deployments are within reach through fine-tuning.
Source: Gartner, 10 Best Practices for Scaling Generative AI Across the Enterprise, Arun Chandrasekaran, Leinar Ramos, Alberto Pietrobon, 10 January 2024.
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About Forum SystemsForum Systems is leading the Enterprise GenAI revolution. Forum’s patent-pending QuantumSim™, together with Forum Sentry, mitigate the unpredictable nature of LLMs through integration with corporate APIs, ensuring LLM output is truthful and accurate. QuantumSim™ is secure by design and ships with industry-leading guardrails, moderation, data obfuscation, and observability for LLM-enabled offerings. Used by some of the largest global companies for building intelligent business workflows, Forum’s suite of products provides unique solutions that allow enterprises to reinvent themselves with GenAI.
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Artificial Intelligence
LG CEO EMBARKS ON STRATEGIC U.S. VISIT TO ENHANCE AI INITIATIVES
AI as Key Driver for Future Growth and Customer Experience Innovation
SEOUL, South Korea, May 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — LG Electronics’ (LG) CEO, William Cho, has embarked on a strategic business trip to the tech-rich western United States, a hotspot for global tech titans and dynamic AI dialogues. Throughout his week-long visit, Cho will focus on key tasks such as attracting top-tier AI talent, communicating the company’s vision and strategy to global investors and attending the influential MS CEO Summit. These endeavors are integral to LG’s comprehensive strategy to accelerate the incorporation of AI into all its business sectors.
AI as a Crucial Catalyst for Future Growth and Customer Experience Innovation
Throughout his trip, Cho aims to secure top-notch expertise in the AI field, an area that has recently surfaced as a critical turning point in the industry. He plans to leverage this as a springboard for transforming LG’s future business portfolio and revolutionizing the customer experience.
Annually, LG introduces approximately 100 million products to the market. Given a product lifespan of seven years, it’s estimated that nearly 700 million LG products are currently in use worldwide. Furthermore, the usage data gained from customers interacting with these devices exceeds 700 billion hours. Cho anticipates this enormous pool of usage data will help accelerate LG’s AI progression and the 700 million products will function not just as customer touchpoints but also as service platforms.
“AI, Cloud, and Big Data are new opportunities for LG”
Cho commenced his itinerary by hosting a tech conference in North America on the 11th in Cupertino, California. This program is aimed at drawing in top-notch talent from abroad. Key participants included LG’s AI Lab management team and executives from LG’s various businesses including Park Hyoung-sei, president of the LG Home Entertainment Company; Eun Seok-hyun, president of LG Vehicle component Solutions Company; Dr. Kim Byoung-hoon, CTO and executive vice president; Kim Weon-bum, CHO and executive vice president; and Dr. Sokwoo Rhee, head of LG’s North America Innovation Center.
LG extended invitations to about 50 AI experts currently working in large tech firms and startups in the Bay Area, as well as doctoral researchers from renowned universities in North America. The conference focused on discussions about the company’s vision, R&D strategy and the future trajectory of AI technology development.
Cho expressed, “In the face of transformative shifts such as electrification, servitization and digitalization sweeping across diverse industries, the application of AI, cloud and big data is paving the way for novel approaches and opportunities.” He further elaborated, “These emerging opportunities represent a new potential frontier for us, given our extensive accumulation of core technologies and expertise.”
He also provided detailed insights into LG’s AI vision of ‘Affectionate Intelligence’, which was unveiled earlier this year at CES 2024. Cho emphasized that “AI should fundamentally be used to care for and empathize with customers, provide tangible benefits and improve the customer experience,” a sentiment that deeply resonated with the attendees.
Following this, he announced, “LG is transcending its status from a global leader in the home appliance and consumer electronics to transform into a ‘Smart Life Solution Company’ that expands and interconnects various customer spaces and experiences.” He added, “I envision us collaborating to reinvent dreams as we undertake bold ventures, fueled by optimism for a brighter future and a better life.”
At the event, CTO Kim Byung-hoon spoke on the subjects of ‘Paradigm Shift’ and ‘LG’s Innovation Roadmap for the Future’, and vice president Han Eun-jung of AI Lab discussed ‘Daily Life with AI’. Professors from the University of Southern California and New York University were also invited to present on generative AI and robotics technology. A panel discussion on the theme of ‘Evolution of AI’ also attracted significant interest from the attendees.
Transition from a Leading Home Appliance Brand to a Smart Life Solution Company
Cho’s second agenda includes hosting a non-deal roadshow (NDR) on May 13, where he will interact with key executives from globally influential investment firms based in San Francisco. His strategy aims to depict LG’s transformation to a comprehensive ‘Smart Life Solution Company’. This transition is anchored in broadening the company’s business portfolio, which includes accelerating B2B business in areas such as EV components, HVAC, built-in appliances’ and signage solutions. The expansion of platform-based services like webOS, and venturing into new areas for LG such as robotics and EV charging, are also integral to this transformation plan.
In particular, Cho plans to highlight how LG is proactively engaging in the development and application of AI in its business operations. He aims to stress that creating tangible customer touchpoints is more crucial than merely having superior AI to provide authentic value and experience to customers.
In this regard, LG’s customer touchpoints, secured through its 700 million devices spanning diverse spaces from homes to vehicles and commercial areas, present a significant advantage that is unmatched by other global companies. LG’s goal is to realize Affectionate Intelligence in our daily lives by leveraging extensive real-time life data and expertise orchestrating devices and services to accelerate AI development using its devices as platforms.
Securing Global AI Allies and Discovering New Business Opportunities at the MS CEO Summit
Cho is also scheduled to attend the MS CEO Summit, a private, invitation-only event taking place in Seattle, where Microsoft’s headquarters is located, for three days starting from May 14. This summit serves as a platform for CEOs and representatives of globally leading companies to discuss and exchange ideas on various topics, including the economic and business environment, as well as industry trends.
LG is diligently working to establish world-class AI capabilities, guided by a ‘3B strategy’ that focuses on Building internal capabilities or Borrowing and Buying external resources. Given LG’s extensive global customer touchpoints and its possession of a vast amount of multi-faceted data and customer insights, the opportunities for future collaborations with globally influential tech companies are expected to become increasingly diverse.
About LG Electronics, Inc.
LG Electronics is a global innovator in technology and consumer electronics with a presence in almost every country and an international workforce of more than 74,000. LG’s four companies – Home Appliance & Air Solution, Home Entertainment, Vehicle component Solutions and Business Solutions – combined for global revenue of over KRW 84 trillion in 2023. LG is a leading manufacturer of consumer and commercial products ranging from TVs, home appliances, air solutions, monitors, automotive components and solutions, and its premium LG SIGNATURE and intelligent LG ThinQ brands are familiar names world over. Visit www.LGnewsroom.com for the latest news.
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Elevate Your Virtual Reality Experience with KIWI design RGB Vertical Stand, Now Available on Meta’s Website
LOS ANGELES, May 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Top-tier VR accessories provider KIWI design has launched its latest product, the RGB Vertical Stand. This Meta-authorized accessory, designed to deepen users’ immersion in the metaverse, is now available on the official Meta website.
“KIWI design’s commitment to pushing the boundaries of virtual reality accessories takes another leap forward with the introduction of our new products,” said Ray,the CEO of KIWI design. “We are always dedicated to bringing innovative upgrades to VR device accessories, with the goal of enriching users’ virtual reality experiences.”
The newly launched RGB Vertical Stand features a user-friendly modular design with push-in assembly, making it easy to set up and use. It is compatible with Meta Quest 3, Quest 2, and Quest Pro, ensuring widespread usability. With a magnetic USB Type-C connector, it provides an effortless way to charge and display your headset. Users can also customize their display with 16 pre-set ambient multicolor RGB light options.
With VR technology constantly evolving, users are seeking more immersive experiences. As a leading manufacturer of VR accessories, KIWI design is committed to enhancing the user experience, through unique product designs. Since its establishment in 2015, KIWI design has acquired over 100 patents and has a diverse product lineup, including head straps, facial interfaces, VR stands, charging accessories, and controller grip covers.
KIWI design has also actively participated in the Made for Meta program, which is provided by Meta to strengthen its partnerships with leading brands to deliver accessories that enhance Meta products with more choice and a richer experience for everyone. KIWI design’s participation in this program validates its high-quality design standards.
The RGB Vertical Stand for Meta Quest 3, Quest 2, and Quest Pro and another specially designed authorized charging dock for the Meta Oculus Quest 2 are now available for purchase on both KIWI design’s website and Amazon. For more information about our brand and products, please visit our website and follow KIWI design on Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube and TikTok.
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