Albert Heijn, the Netherlands’ largest supermarket chain, is rewriting the rules for employee engagement and operational efficiency through a forward-thinking partnership with Microsoft and EPAM. The core of this transformation lies in the deployment of Azure OpenAI-enabled virtual assistants...
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There’s a quiet but robust digital transformation happening behind the counters of Starbucks, and its latest chapter is called Green Dot Assist—a generative AI assistant powered by Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI platform. As Starbucks aims to blend human connection with high-tech convenience, Green...
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