Business | Digging for digits

AI is setting off a great scramble for data

Feeding ever-larger models is requiring makers to get creative

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Not so long ago analysts were openly wondering whether artificial intelligence (AI) would be the death of Adobe, a maker of software for creative types. New tools like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney, which conjure up pictures from text, seemed set to render Adobe’s image-editing offerings redundant. As recently as April, Seeking Alpha, a financial-news site, published an article headlined “Is AI the Adobe killer?”

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