Veritone Inc. (NASDAQ: VERI) watched its shares climb on Thursday after the company made a critical announcement regarding its artificial intelligence (AI) platform. Essentially, the firm announced that it would be launching a market-first update to its aiWARE operating system.
The groundbreaking aiWARE real-time framework will enable companies and organizations to leverage data in seconds, optimizing their workflows and compliance.
The aiWARE real-time framework is scheduled to launch in April 2018 with natural language processing engines, and Veritone plans to expand its offering of real-time enabled engines across the rest of the company’s 15-plus cognitive categories, including transcription, sentiment, visual moderation, translation, as well as object, face and optical character recognition, during 2018.
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According to the research firm Gartner, AI augmented services and applications will generate $2.9 trillion in business value and recover 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity in 2021. With such a huge market opportunity, Veritone could stand to benefit tremendously by launching now.
Hong Bui, senior vice president and chief product officer at Veritone, commented:
As more customers deploy and expand their use of artificial intelligence, we are increasingly seeing use cases where the speed of cognition is equally as important as accuracy and cost. As a result of this upgrade, we’re now able to deliver transcription results within seconds, with best-in-class accuracy and pricing, and we believe that sub-second results will be possible in some other cognitive classes. The applications of aiWARE are limited only by our customers’ imaginations, as we continue to expand the real-time cognitive capabilities of aiWARE.
Shares of Veritone were last seen up about 15% at $15.10, with a consensus analyst price target of $24.25 and a 52-week range of $7.76 to $74.92.
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