• It recently hosted a three-day LVMH Data AI Summit in Paris, bringing together students and practitioners to explore innovative AI applications. And it has aligned with Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute (Stanford HAI), which is on the forefront of research in the retail sector for AI safety, human-centered design, human-computer interactions and other areas.
• “In luxury retail, customer experience has always been paramount,” Deloitte explained in a report presented at the World Retail Congress entitled “Retail Reimagined: Creating Luxury Customer Experiences Using Data-Driven Insights.”

• a Nvidia survey among 400 retail professionals found an overwhelming 86% see the greatest potential for GenAI is to enhance the customer experience, specifically used to assist in product recommendation, virtual shopping and try-on, technologies that LVMH uses most effectively at Sephora and has tested for Dior.

   
• LVMH’s work with Stanford HAI will focus on new applications of AI in customer experience, product design, marketing content & communication, manufacturing, supply chain management and other areas.

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• Synthesia's Expressive Avatars are powered by its Express-1 AI model. While the startup uses open-source LLMs for the text elements of the product, Synthesia trained Express-1 entirely on content produced in-house -- nothing synthetic or scraped from the web. 
• Synthesia is part of the Content Authenticity Initiative, a coalition of companies and organizations working on tools for content provenance or for identifying the origins of a piece of media.