毕马威美国

2023年7月12日

毕马威(KPMG)投资美元2 b在人工智能和云扩展与微软合作分享专业服务公司毕马威已表示,它的扩大与微软(Microsoft corp .)和合作将投资20亿美元到人工智能和未来五年的云服务。投资将帮助大约265000人的公司进一步自动化的各个方面税收、审计和咨询服务,同时让员工执行更快的分析。这将意味着他们可以花更多的时间给客户战略建议和帮助他们将人工智能集成到他们的业务操作,毕马威(KPMG)说。毕马威(KPMG)董事长兼首席执行官比尔·托马斯告诉《华尔街日报》在接受采访时说,该公司计划提高员工与人工智能的功能,而不是使用技术来消除任何工作。任何工人的工作都可以自动与人工智能将搬到一个新的角色或提供培训,他解释说。“我当然不希望我们会解雇很多人因为我们投资于这种伙伴关系,”托马斯说。“我希望,我们的组织将继续成长,我们将reskill人们尽可能,坦率地说,创造各种各样的机会,我们甚至无法想象的方式。“伙伴关系意味着毕马威将第一个公司获得一个AI助理叫微软365副驾驶员,之前向公众推出。与微软扩大协议还将意味着毕马威Azure云平台给人们带来更多的工作量。毕马威(KPMG)已经使用Azure访问OpenAI构建和运行自己的人工智能应用程序的服务。OpenAI服务独家Azure因为微软与OpenAI LP也有合作关系。的创造者ChatGPT推广生成人工智能聊天机器人。 KPMG revealed that it expects to generate around $12 billion in additional revenue through the five-year partnership. KPMG most recently delivered $34.64 billion in annual revenue in the year ended Sept. 30, 2022. The company is the smallest of the so-called “big four accounting firms”, with the others being PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd., Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. and Ernst & Young Global Ltd. KPMG previously inked a multi-year partnership with Microsoft back in 2019, and since then has been applying AI to various aspects of its business, with the technology helping clients to eliminate bias in their decision making. Today’s deal means it will step up its use of AI, Thomas said, with a significant portion of its investment going on generative AI. He explained that businesses are eager to find ways to use generative AI technology to cut costs and increase business efficiencies. In addition, KPMG will use generative AI to improve its work around environmental, social and governance issues. The technology can help to unify massive datasets for tax reporting and analysis of ESG-related transactions. It can also help with data analysis for audits, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told the Journal. KPMG’s investment comes at a difficult moment for the accounting firm, which has struggled with slowing growth in its consultancy business as clients spend less on its services due to economic concerns. In June, its U.S. division announced it was laying off almost 2,000 staff. The other big accounting firms have made similar investments in cloud and AI technologies to strengthen their consulting, tax and auditing businesses, and all three have also partnered with Microsoft. Deloitte in December said it would spend $1.4 billion on training employees on new technologies including AI, and followed up in April by announcing plans to establish a new generative AI practice . PricewaterhouseCoopers said in April it will invest $1 billion in generative AI technology over three years, and is also partnering with Microsoft. Meanwhile, Ernst & Young last year announced it will spend $1 billion to enhance its audit technology capabilities with AI and other technologies. Another big consulting firm, Accenture Plc, said last month it will invest $3 billion on data and AI over the next three years. It also announced expanded partnerships with Microsoft and the two other big public cloud computing providers, Amazon Web Services Inc. and Google Cloud.