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Machine learning applied to factory processes, quality control and industrial operations, usually dependent on proprietary production data.
Parsec's survey puts manufacturing AI use at 72% and at-scale AI or ML automation at 10%. Its author reads accountability anxiety into that gap; the barriers respondents ranked were governance, cost and integration.
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CADDi raised $114 million at a $1.2 billion valuation and is opening its platform in the US, where the people who can name a saving sit in purchasing and the drawings they need to search are often still on paper.
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CADDi raised $114 million from eight investors, among them Toyota's Woven Capital and Recruit's HR Tech Fund, at a valuation 2.55 times its March 2025 mark and set against sales its chief executive says are more than doubling each year.
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The Tokyo and Chicago manufacturing software company was valued at $470 million in March 2025 and is now valued at $1.2 billion, with headcount up from 600 to about 900 and more than a hundred of those people employed to get customers to change how they work.
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The SK chairman told the Ulsan Forum that AI has to generate profits on its own and reinvest them. In the same speech he said the group's Ulsan data centre has added 900 megawatts to a project first sized at 103.
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