Twilio Inc. (TWLO) Partners with Chelsea Football Club to Enhance Fan Engagement with AI-Driven Solutions

We recently compiled a list of the 12 High Flying AI Stocks This Week. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Twilio Inc. (NYSE:TWLO) stands against the other high flying AI stocks.

In the artificial intelligence world, the spotlight will be shifting to France next week as the world awaits the US and China to find common ground over the safe development of artificial intelligence. Judging by the measured response from China over the tariffs issue, there is a chance it might. That noted, a wide variety of countries are going to be attending an AI Action Summit in Paris next week to discuss how to put the technology to work. France is going to be hosting the summit alongside India on Feb 10 and 11, focusing on areas such as open-source systems and clean energy for powering data centers, Reuters reported.

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Meanwhile, the emergence of DeepSeek is increasingly turning into a game-changing event for AI development in China. The founder, Liang Wenfeng, is being hailed as a national hero. Indeed, his efforts have greatly helped the country to catch up with the US in the race toward AI supremacy. Chinese companies are increasingly rushing to support AI models coming from DeepSeek. Moore Threads and Hygon Information Technology, for instance, said on Monday that their computing clusters and accelerators will be able to support Deep Seek’s R1 and V3 models. Moore Threads, in particular, stated that progress by DeepSeek’s models using domestically made GPUs could set China’s AI industry “on fire”.

While many of the companies in China are rushing to adopt DeepSeek, yet many others are pushing their own AI models forward. Alibaba Cloud released Qwen 2.5-Max just after DeepSeek over the holidays, Beijing-based start-up Zhipu is also in the AI race with its AI assistant app released in October, Chinese start-up Moonshot AI released its own LLM the day DeepSeek released its r1 model, and more. These moves by Chinese companies, and the broader market reaction in the US after the emergence of DeepSeek, reflect on how grave the impact has been on the AI world.

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Twilio Inc. (TWLO): Analyst Predicts Growth Ahead of Key AI and CPaaS Updates

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Twilio Inc. (NYSE:TWLO)

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Twilio Inc. (NYSE:TWLO) is a leading cloud communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) company. The company integrates artificial intelligence via tools like Twilio Segment and Twilio Flex for enhancing customer engagement and data insights. On February 5th, the company announced that it had entered into a multi-year partnership with Chelsea Football Club. Twilio will be serving as an official supplier for the club, leveraging the Twilio Segment customer data platform (CDP) to enhance fan engagement and digital experiences. Twilio Segment will allow the club to create a comprehensive view of each fan’s interaction with Chelsea, helping it to provide highly personalized experiences. Some examples of these experiences include rewarding fans for engagement by offering promotions when they enter the stadium, personalizing the content they see with their favorite player, and more.

“This exciting new partnership will empower Chelsea Football Club to connect with their fans, enabling powerful, personalised engagement both home and away. At Twilio, we’re committed to supporting Chelsea in allowing its fans to feel even closer to the club. We’re excited to see the game-changing impact of this partnership over the coming years.”

– Peter Bell, Vice President of Marketing, EMEA at Twilio.

Overall TWLO ranks 9th on our list of the high flying AI stocks this week. While we acknowledge the potential of TWLO as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter timeframe. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than TWLO but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.

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Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.