Facebook buys the Ozlo Artificial Intelligence Startup for the development of AI capabilities in Messenger. The information confirmed Facebook on Monday, but the terms of the agreement were not revealed.
“We're excited to welcome the Ozlo team as we develop exciting Messenger experiences powered by artificial intelligence and engineering learning," a Facebook spokesperson 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, an AI-powered digital assistant 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, Facebook researchers have reported that they have made progress in the training of chatbots but for the time being, the audience has not seen anything exciting. But it seems soon that there will be news.
Messenger currently has more than 1,2 billion active monthly users and Facebook has turned its messaging platform into a place where people can easily communicate not just with other people but also with businesses.
However, Facebook executives insist that Messenger revenue generation will be "slow and deliberate".
