Post #296

Apple acquires init.ai Earlier this week, a small startup called Init.ai announced that it soon would be discontinuing its service. The team was (according to a notice on the site) “joining a project that touches the lives of countless people across the world.” They are becoming a part of the group working on Siri. To be clear, this is not a straight acquisition, but more of an acqui-hire, so Apple didn’t have a comment to offer along the lines of the one it made last week. Huge news for all the bot space 💪🏻 https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/04/apple-acqui-hired-the-team-from-messaging-assistant-init-ai-to-work-on-siri/