Flipkart wants data scientists to build future retail

Flipkart says it also wants to deploy the technical expertise to weed out fraudulent transactions on its platform

Sachin Bansal, the co-founder and former CEO of India's most successful venture capital-backed firm Flipkart is putting together a team of data scientists and artificial intelligence engineers to build smarter solutions for customers and stay ahead of rival Amazon.

Flipkart, which claims to have over 100 million customers on its platform, is sitting on one of the largest piles of consumer data the country has ever seen. To utilise this data for making better recommendations, improving speed delivering and increasing operational efficiencies, the company wants to utilise Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).

While artificial intelligence and