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DeepSeek was only founded in 2023. The company is based in Hangzhou, an important port city in Eastern China that has been a strategic hub along the Silk Roads for thousands of years. DeepSeek has been building large language models (LLMs) since the company was created, but the[ 2025 release of their R1 LLM challenged](https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/

An automated system has answered a customer’s question. The answer is accurate in itself, but it has missed the true reason for the contact. The customer has to explain the situation again, this time to human support. The support representative resolves the issue, but notices something else: the same misunderstanding keeps appearing across multiple customer journeys. When a mistake repeats at scale, who owns the lesson? And what should a global enterprise expect from a CX partner whose job inclu

A permanent resignation or a temporary engagement drop? Either way, for BFSI brands, losing their most experienced experts’ efforts for even a moment can turn routine risk into a crisis. For many, CX is the weakest link in this chain. Call centre agent turnover in the UK runs at 31.2% a year and is still rising. This against a European workforce that [Gal

Something happens when a technology concept outpaces the terminology we have to describe it. Across the customer experience landscape, vendors start applying the same label to wildly different things. For instance, industry leaders start buying into the AI label instead of its real operational capability. And somewhere between the pitch deck and the production environment, the real question gets lost: does any of this actually address a real operational need? Agentic AI has reached that stage.

This is an interesting thought experiment that is worth exploring for anyone involved in buying or selling enterprise services. Think about two companies in your industry that essentially offer the same services, but in an entirely different way. Banking is a good example. There are several European banks that have been continuously operating for almost 300 years. You can imagine how some of these bank branches look. I

When a single negative interaction sends more than 50% of customers to a competitor, CX is make-or-break for every brand. From goal and lever metrics to leading and lagging indicators, experience stats like customer satisfaction (CSAT) and net promoter score (NPS) to efficiency measures like average resolution time, team health factors, and even AI-powered customer service KPIs, learn everything you need to track to assess your customer

The questions retail and e-commerce buyers now ask AI assistants about support outsourcing, and the evaluation criteria that actually answer them.