‘We’re imagining a world where any commerce can happen just by phone conversation’: iKala CEO Sega Cheng

Sega Cheng was pursuing an Engineering Degree at Stanford University 15 years...


ServiceNow acquires conversational AI startup Passage AI

ServiceNow announced this morning that it has acquired Passage AI, a startup...


Rasa raises $13M led by Accel for its developer-friendly open-source approach to chatbots

Conversational AI and the use of chatbots have been through multiple cycles of...


Bonobo AI raises $4.5M seed round to help companies turn interactions with customers into valuable data

Bonobo AI, an AI-based platform that helps companies get insights from customer...


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

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


Amazon has a shiny new startup accelerator to advance conversational AI

 Big tech companies have been creating accelerators left and right to...