x.ai makes an AI personal assistant who schedules meetings for you

AI WITH THE BEST SEPTEMBER 2016

Magically Schedule Meetings

@dennismortensen@xdotai

It’s worth looking at which segments these players occupy. I see three key segments.

1. AI PlatformIntelligent platforms have a set of existing features that you use to build bots (applications).Examples: Facebook’s Messenger, Microsoft’s Bot Platform, Amazon Echo

2. AI as a ServiceThese allow developers to build models and generate predictions in the cloud, without having to engineer and/or maintain the supporting infrastructure.

Examples: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Azure and Google’s Cloud offerings

3. AI SoftwareProprietary software and/or open source tools that will help you with the learning aspect of building an AI.

Examples: TensorFlow from Google, Spark’s MLlib

Vertical AI

Horizontal AI

Alexa Siri Cortana

What makes a good AI product?

1. Truly autonomousThe best AI products make the user more capable. And the very best AI completes a task start to finish for the user-- the user should have to do as little work as possible to make it happen.

2. Allows users to communicate using natural languageIt’s just as important that these AI agents or virtual assistants allow users to communicate using natural language. Having to modify speech or text into some sort of machine syntax is cumbersome, and requires the user to do work. The whole point is to seamlessly hand over a task.

3. Has a natural response to the userOn the other end of the interaction, it’s important for the AI’s responses to seem as natural as possible. This is where the role of the AI Interaction Designer came in at x.ai.

Dennis, Alex, Matt and friends gather to try to

understand the meeting-scheduling

universe

x.ai is incorporated

Seed round ($2.1M)closed

First hire and first beta users admitted

Series A raised ($9.1M). Use funds to build up data

science and engineering teams

Andrew is born Series B financing raised ($23M)

Amy gets asked out on a date

Have more or less defined the meeting scheduling

universe.

Hiring data scientists, engineers and business

leads at a rapid rate.

The first chapter of Amy’s life.

OCT 2013 MAY 2014 JAN 2015 DEC 2015 TODAY

APR 2014 JUN 2014 MAR 2015 APR 2016

dennis @ human.x.aiceo and founder

25 Broadway, 9th FloorNew York, 10004 NY

@xdotai@dennismortensen