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Siemens CEO Says Germany Has Big Industrial Data Set for AI Push

Siemens CEO Says Germany Has Big Industrial Data Set for AI Push

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Siemens AG Chief Executive Officer Roland Busch said Germany must leverage the loads of data across its industrial companies to take advantage of artificial intelligence.
'We are sitting on a massive amount of data,' Busch said Monday during a Bloomberg TV interview. 'This is one of the most industrialized economies in the world, and again, small and medium sized enterprises, large ones, they're creating data from their buildings, their manufacturing sites, their engineering.'
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