Ultimate.ai nabs $1.3M for a customer service AI focused on non-English markets

For customer service, Ultimate.ai‘s thesis is it’s not humans or AI...


A more inclusive Messenger platform involves building bots for the world’s poor and understanding cultural nuances

A word about cultural peculiarities and low tech literacy TL;DR In many...


Indonesian AI platform for natural language processing Bahasa.ai gets seed funding from East Ventures

Bahasa.ai announced today that it has received an undisclosed amount of seed...


AI, singularity, and machine learning explained in 5 minutes

Technology will cause a shift in the workforce and allow us to focus on higher...


Landbot gets $2.2M for its on-message ‘anti-AI’ chatbot

Who needs AI to have a good conversation? Spanish startup Landbot has...


MeetFrank nets $1.1M for its passive job matching chatbot

MeetFrank, aka a ‘secret’ recruitment app that uses machine learning...


Hugging Face raises $4 million for its artificial BFF

Chatbot startup Hugging Face has raised a $4 million seed round led by Ronny...


Microsoft acquires conversational AI startup Semantic Machines to help bots sound more lifelike

Microsoft announced today that it has acquired Semantic Machines, a...


4 made-in-Singapore chatbots that can raise your company’s productivity

Chatbots have evolved from simple automated scripts to elaborate algorithms that...


Ben is a chatbot that lets you learn about and buy Bitcoin

It’s generally a given that whenever a new technology takes off people...