{"id":469003,"date":"2026-02-09T18:49:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/469003\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T18:49:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:49:47","slug":"car-group-takes-on-the-ai-sceptics-for-a-resounding-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/469003\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Group takes on the AI sceptics for a resounding win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the eye of the AI storm and sinking like a stone, the new boss of $10 billion Carsales owner Car Group went to results day ready to turn the artificial intelligence story on its head.<\/p>\n<p>William Elliott had slides on how Car Group was using AI, how it planned to use it, how it made the company and its services more valuable (not less) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5o0l8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and a surprise new global AI hub with an appropriately buzzy name (CG\/lab)<\/a> that would build agentic AI capabilities that could be rolled out across Car Group\u2019s various businesses worldwide. He threw everything at it and needed most of it to stick.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the eye of the AI storm and sinking like a stone, the new boss of $10 billion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-469003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}