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're excited to welcome the Ozlo team as we develop compelling AI-powered Messenger experiences and engineering learning," a Facebook spokesperson told ZDNet.
Ozlo is a company, based in Palo Alto of California. It mentions on its website that her team "has built a knowledge graph containing over 2 billion additions and has created an amazing technology AI that uses this data to understand real-world 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, 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 monthly active users and Facebook has transformed the exchange platform messages of, in a place where people can easily communicate not only with other people but also with businesses.
However, Facebook executives insist that Messenger revenue generation will be "slow and deliberate".
