Originally published here in Business Wire

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GroupBy Inc., a SaaS-based eCommerce search and product discovery leader, has been named a finalist in The 2024 A.I. Awards program in the Best Use of AI in Retail and eCommerce category. The company's AI-first composable platform is bridging the gap between consumer and merchant by delivering next-generation search technology to retailers globally.

GroupBy’s AI-first eCommerce Search and Product Discovery Platform is built on Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Search for Retail, a next-generation search engine built exclusively for eCommerce use cases. Trained on 1.8 trillion data points and insights gleaned from Google.com, YouTube and Google Shopping, this search engine can deliver relevant, personalized and buyable search results for any type of query. The platform consists of Search, Recommendations, Data Enrichment, Fitment AI (Year, Make, Model Search), Merchandising, and Analytics and Reporting, providing eCommerce merchants access to a powerhouse of products and services designed to enhance the digital customer experience.

“We’re honored to be selected as a finalist for this award," said Roland Gossage, CEO of GroupBy. "Our team is dedicated to creating seamless, intuitive shopping experiences powered by cutting-edge AI technology. This recognition acknowledges our commitment to driving industry change that allows retailers to connect their customers with the products they’re looking for quickly and easily."

GroupBy’s platform empowers retailers to significantly enhance the customer experience easily and at scale by delivering highly relevant, personalized, and buyable search results for any query type—long-tail, keyword, ambiguous, conversational, part number, and more. This seamless search experience reduces friction in the shopper journey while increasing customer satisfaction, loyalty, and overall sales for merchants.

The A.I. Awards, a new awards program launched earlier this year by The Cloud Awards, recognizes and rewards excellence and innovation in the use or development of cloud artificial intelligence technologies, and machine learning.

“We’re excited to reveal the finalists of the inaugural A.I. Awards. The program spotlights the incredible innovations taking place in the world of cloud AI all over the globe, and GroupBy fully deserves its place amongst this year’s outstanding finalists,” said James Williams, CEO of The Cloud Awards. “Across the whole program these finalists demonstrate that ingenious AI-driven solutions can emerge from anywhere, from organizations of any size, driving positive change in almost any industry you can think of. We can’t wait to see who the judging panel selects as the winners, and wish all of our finalists luck in the final round of assessment.”

The program will now begin its final round of judging – resulting in a winner in each category being selected from this group of finalists. A.I. Awards winners will be announced on Tuesday 8 October 2024. The full cast of finalists across all categories can be viewed here: https://www.cloud-awards.com/2024-ai-awards-finalists