Topical Thoughts
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Insert Tokens to Play: AI Adoption by European Companies
As AI capabilities continue to improve, understanding actual usage is critical for financial markets and the macroeconomic outlook. We aim to understand the current state of play in Europe. Using data from company earnings calls, we analyse how large Eurozone firms are currently using AI. Adoption is broad but uses are more incremental than revolutionary.
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We look at AI use cases among large firms in the Eurozone, from customer chatbots to engineering optimisation, analysing different categories and sectoral trends.
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