Virtual assistants are one of the strengths with which AI is reaching the majority of users, companies specializing in chatbots are among the 100 most promising companies in 2017 in this field of AI, these are 8 of the most important:
1. Mobvoy
Mobvoi was founded by two Chinese entrepreneurs who used to work at Google in Silicon Valley, but later returned to Beijing and created an Artificial Intelligence company, where 60% of the employees are engineers. Chinese leader of voice recognition used by Wechat, the largest instant messaging service in China. So impressive that even Google invested. Its core technology includes speech recognition, semantic analysis for chatbots, text-to-speech, and other technology applications such as a mobile voice search service called Chumenwenwen.
2. MindMeld
MindMeld was founded in 2011 by Tim Tuttle. A former AI researcher at MIT and Bell Labs, Tim saw how recent advances in AI would enable advanced applications powered by natural language, touch, and gestures.. MindMeld is the first platform that makes it possible for companies to create intelligent conversational interfaces for any application or device.
3. Semantic Machines
Shifting from understanding commands to understanding conversations. Semantic Machines has a Lots of talent on his team, including co-founder Larry Gillick, former Siri Chief Scientist at Apple, and Stanford AI Professor Percy Liang. Semantic Machines is developing the fundamental AI technology needed to make conversational computing a reality.
4. X.ai
It is the AI assistant that manages to perform many of the tasks of a secretary. This “intelligent” personal assistant is who you should contact if you want to make an appointment from now on. No downloading apps, no login or passwords. This "secretary" will be in charge of contacting the meeting participants, looking for the best date and specifying.
5.Snips.ai
This startup has created a voice assistant that can be adapted to a large number of devices by running on them, not in the cloud. "Instead of making humans go through the effort of using machines, we should use AI so that machines learn to communicate with humans. By making this ubiquitous and preserving privacy, we can make technology so intuitive and accessible that it simply disappears from our awareness.” Source Snips.ai. the company emphasizes privacy and they claim not to collect any data from their users.
6. Kitt.ai
Founded in 2014, this platform offers the possibility of creating a chatbot without much programming knowledge. With robust natural language understanding and an intuitive, cross-platform conversational engine for voice and text, this Chatflow company creates an assistant like Uberbot for example.
7. Clara Labs
Like X.ai, this company has created an assistant that schedules your meetings. This platform offers for prices ranging from $99 to $400, this chatbot and 24/7 support with human technicians. "Clara is getting smarter, faster than any other system of its kind." Source Clara Labs
8. Auto
Automat, with 17 patents in the fields of speech recognition, natural language understanding, virtual assistants, and AI, is making it easier for anyone to build a bot that uses artificial intelligence and human expertise to enable “business conversations at scale”. If you want to "implement conversational marketing across Facebook Messenger and other messaging platforms," then you can sign up for Automat's private beta and see exactly what it's all about.
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Source: CB Insights
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