Facebook buys AI startup Ozlo to build AI capabilities inside Messenger. Her information Facebook confirmed Monday, but terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"We are excited to welcome the Ozlo team as we develop exciting experiences in Messenger powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning," a Facebook spokesman told ZDNet.
Ozlo is a company based in Palo Alto, California. He says on its website that her team "has created a knowledge graph containing over 2 billion additions and has created an amazing AI technology that uses this data to understand real situations".
These situations of the real world, according to Recode, include questions that have no simple answers to yes, nothing or nothing, such as whether a restaurant is friendly to its customers.
In April, Facebook put M, a digital assistant with AI technology in Messenger with limited functionality.
"This is just the beginning for M," Facebook product managers Laurent Landowski and Kemal El Moujahid said in a post on the company's blog at the time. "Expect to see more and more AI-powered, enjoyable and relevant experiences that will improve your Messenger every day."
Since then, the researchers of Facebook have reported that they have made progress in training chatbots but so far the public has not seen anything exciting. But as it seems, there will be news soon.
Messenger currently has more than 1,2 billion monthly active users users και το Facebook έχει μετατρέψει την πλατφόρμα ανταλλαγής messages of, in a place where people can easily communicate not only with other people but also with businesses.
However, Facebook executives insist that the creation revenue from Messenger will be “slow and deliberate”.
