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Coke 'exploring ways to leverage AI'

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Coke 'exploring ways to leverage AI' (because every company needs an AI strategy now)

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Josh Schafer
·Reporter
Tue, April 25, 2023, 1:02 AM GMT+9·3 min read

Even Coca-Cola (KO) has an artificial intelligence strategy now.

The beverage company’s first quarter earnings release featured the usual components, showing growth in a new drink category and an increase in soft drink sales.

But the company also dedicated a paragraph to highlighting its collaboration with “cutting-edge technology” platforms such as ChatGPT and DALL-E.

“The company is also exploring ways to leverage AI to improve customer service and ordering as well as point-of-sale material creation in collaboration with its bottling partners,” Coca-Cola said in its earnings release.

Through the “Create Real Magic” contest, Coca-Cola is allowing artists to download Coke art using Artificial Intelligence technology. The art could appear digital billboards in New York’s Time Square and London’s Piccadilly Circus.
Through the “Create Real Magic” contest, Coca-Cola is allowing artists to download Coke art using Artificial Intelligence technology. The art could appear in digital billboards in New York’s Times Square and London’s Piccadilly Circus.

Coca-Cola isn’t the only company that’s become keenly interested in A.I. — or at least said it is — since OpenAI set the craze into motion in late November with the launch of its ChatGPT chatbot. Tech giants Microsoft (MSFT) and Alphabet (GOOGL) have detailed their ownstrategies as have more unexpected players likeKeurig Dr.Pepper's (KDP) Snapple and Chipotle (CMG).

The A.I. surge has carried some stocks higher, too. At one point this year, C3.ai (AI) stock rose nearly 200% year-to-date. Shares fell on Monday, though, as Wolfe Research downgraded the stock to Underperform from Peer Perform. Wolfe sees “significant risks” to revenue growth for C3.AI, which helps businesses build AI solutions and applications.

"Our analysis of C3.ai's customer count suggests that either renegotiation of contract renewals is taking longer or that churn is increasing," Wolfe research analyst Joshua Tilton wrote in a note to clients on Monday.

The A.I. stock surges are not in line with fundamentals and reminiscent of past instances of companies throwing out buzz words to appease eager investors. Take blockchain, for instance.

In 2018, Amazon flaunted a partnership to make “blockchain more accessible and easier to use for customers.” Despite positioning blockchain as a solution used within its popular Amazon Web Services at the time of the announcement, Amazon executives didn’t mention the phrase “blockchain” once in the company’s most recent earnings call in February.

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