John Lewis signs deal with Google to boost AI efforts

John Lewis Liverpool

The John Lewis Partnership has signed a £100m agreement with Google as it plans to cut data storage costs and boost its artificial intelligence efforts.

JLP plans to launch an AI customer service bot later this year and augmented reality services are “also in development”.

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