November 24th, 2018A medtech firm Lupin has reportedly roled out a chatbot named ‘ANYA’ which has been basically designed to provide medically verified information for health-related queries. This particular disease awareness bot aims to answer patient queries related to ailments.
The bot was launched at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Research...
May 24th, 2018DheeYantra Research Labs, the company behind vernacular chatbot platform dhee.ai, recently raised an undisclosed amount of funding in a seed round led by Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), the incubator-cum-investment arm of IIM-Ahmedabad. This funding round also witnessed the participation of Gopal Krishna,...
April 22nd, 2017Amazon.com Inc's chief technology officer is working toward a day when people can control almost any piece of software with their voice.
The company on Wednesday rolled out the technology powering Alexa, its voice assistant that competes with Apple Inc's Siri, to developers so they can build chat features into their own apps, CTO...
March 7th, 2017HDFC Bank announced the launch of an electronic virtual assistant (EVA), an artificial intelligence-driven chatbot, for customer services.
Eva is India's first AI-based banking chatbot and can answer millions of customer queries across multiple channels instantly, HDFC Bank said in a statement. Eva can assimilate knowledge from...
June 25th, 2016On my way to work in Bangalore last week (I’m an intern at a chatbot company), I was listening to Radio One, an Indian radio station, when I heard an ad for a competition. At first, I didn’t think much of it. Phone-in radio shows are nothing new in India. But then the radio show host said something curious: “WhatsApp us your...
June 20th, 2016LawRato, India's leading lawyer search and legal advice platform, launched the country's first self-help Facebook Messenger chatbot today nicknamed 'LawBot', the chatbot that lets users search for legal answers, ask a free legal question and find the best lawyer for their legal requirement.
Users can also book a consultation with the...
June 17th, 2016Technology giant Microsoft has acquired a messaging-app developer founded by an Indian, as the US-based software firm aims to strengthen its position in the emerging era of combining the power of human language with advanced machine intelligence.
Microsoft acquired California-based Wand Labs, a start-up which builds messaging technology...
May 19th, 2016Leading industrialist Ratan Tata has invested in niki.ai , an artificial intelligence (AI) based chatbot .
The company has also received funding from existing investor Ronnie Screwvala-led Unilazer, it said in a statement.
It, however, did not disclose the details of the funding or the total amount it has raised till date.
The...
