- Slack made you lazy, and now it’s got a Taco Bell bot to make you fat Link
- Rise of the bots: X.ai raises $23m more for Amy, a bot that arranges appointments Link
LINEの採用などから日本でも一気に話題になりつつあるチャットボットですが、調達関連もいくつかあったり動きが激しいです。そもそもコールセンターなどの作業は自動音声に変わったりしてる歴史的背景もあるので、このチャットUIにおける対応が定型化し、毎日使うメッセンジャーの相手がキャラクターなのか人間なのかどっちでも構わないという雰囲気が出来上がっている以上、こないはずがないですね。
ファーストフードの注文をチャットボットが受けて自動運転の配達ロボットが運んでくる、そんな夢みたいな世界観ももうそこまで来ちゃってます。
調達関連
- What downturn? 11 companies became unicorns in Q1 Link
- Did Tokopedia just raise another hundred million dollars? Link
- Luka, with $4.42 million in Series A, releases AI-powered chat bots Link
- Edge Retreats gets $1 million to simplify booking of luxury villas Link
- DeepstreamHub raises $1 million for real-time app development platform Link
- Push Notification Service Getui Enters Mobile Marketing With $108M Fresh Funding Link
- On-demand valet service Luxe confirms $50m investment from Hertz Link
- Robot recycling startup Sadako Technologies wins $100K in Nvidia emerging companies contest Link
- AirMap raises $15M Series A round to develop its airspace management system for drones Link
- Mizzen+Main racks up $3 million for menswear that feels athletic, looks tailored Link
- Twiggle raises $12.5 million to challenge Amazon’s A9 ecommerce search engine Link
- With $12.5 million in funding, including from Amazon, the slick Luma router looks like fierce competition Link
- E-commerce search startup Twiggle scores $12.5M Series A led by Naspers Link
- Karamba Security raises $2.5 million to keep hackers out of connected cars Link
- RiskRecon scores $3 million seed round to provide objective cloud vendor security assessments Link
- Crowdfunder launches a VC fund for the crowd Link
- Clutter on-demand storage services packs up $20 million from Sequoia Link
- Indonesia’s Blanja to secure US$25M from TelkomMetra and eBay Link
- Intercom lands $50 million to own the customer communication journey Link
- IoT startup Kamarq raises $3.2M to manufacture ‘smart’ tables that play music Link
VR・AR関連
- Google invented the best virtual reality app I’ve ever tried — you’ve gotta see it for yourself (GOOG) Link
- Analysts are overlooking how much AR and VR are about to change our lives Link
- Oculus Rift’s privacy policy draws concern from U.S. Senator Al Franken Link
- Facebook’s VR headset is collecting a lot of personal data and people are freaking out (FB) Link
- I sat on my cat because of VR Link
- Oculus VR donates virtual reality headsets to Major League Hacking group Link
- Here’s how hard it is to make a mixed-reality trailer for HTC Vive VR games Link
- VR headsets to generate $895M in revenue in 2016 Link
- Oculus is OK with free-to-play on Rift, but even a VR ad startup doesn’t like that idea Link
- GoPro goes all-in on VR without a winning hand Link
- BMW is Using VR and Mixed Reality to Build Your Next Car Link
- Microsoft: ‘VR is beautiful for gaming’ but HoloLens is a ‘new paradigm’ for information Link
- My brain did something crazy and totally new in virtual reality Link
