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(FINANCIAL TIMES) - There are two schools of thought about the market impact of Big Data and artificial intelligence (AI), although, paradoxically, both may be simultaneously true.

The first says that only the biggest tech companies know how to swim in the deep end of AI. To build state-of-the-art models requires massive amounts of data, computational power, expertise and capital. Only the likes of Google and Microsoft in the US and Alibaba and Tencent in China can ever hope to make a splash.

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