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Amy, a digital assistant who schedules your meetings, just raised $23 million
Ben Popper | April 7, 2016
Last week I hired a personal assistant named Amy Ingram. She set up four meetings for me, adding them to my calendar with the relevant contact details included. She rescheduled twice when the person I was supposed to meet had to cancel at the last minute. Instead of sending half a dozen emails per meeting, I only needed to compose one to kick things off. This all sounds like pretty simple stuff, but Amy isn’t a human being: it’s a virtual assistant made by the New York City startup X.ai. Today the company announced a $23 million round of funding it will use to accelerate its development.
<more at http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/7/11380470/amy-personal-digital-assistant-bot-ai-conversational; related articles and links: https://x.ai/ (X.ai website) and http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/2/11140928/app-store-economy-apple-android-pixite-bankruptcy (Life and Death in the App Store. March 2, 2016)>
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