This is such an interesting pivot! From restaurant recommendations from an AI to a general purpose "platform of bots"...!
I've met Luka's CEO, @ekuyda, and she's super smart. This is a great expansion of the original effort and rather than just providing a platform for other people's bots, Luka now has an army of assistants that can evolve independently, unlocking parallel bot-evolution, and targeted question-response by users. Now you can invite the right bot in a given category to a conversation you're having, instead of relying one universal bot that wouldn't be domain-specific, and therefore potentially prone to confusion.
Congrats to the team — this is an existing launch, with new funding to help them build this out!
@chrismessina Thank you, Chris! Happy to answer any questions. Here is some more info about Luka 2.0 - https://goo.gl/5uCmC6. We are not only opening up Luka and his AI friends to consumers, but also inviting developers to join us building the best messaging experience with bots. Talk to Luka! <3
Luka has shown a clear expertise in bots, they've been doing this for far longer than other players in the market. Looking forward to seeing luka win over with their bots in the near future.
@syedahmedz Thank you, Syed! Love what you're doing with Tara - this is definitely the future!
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Good news everyone! Can you please give some details, i.e. do you plan to compete with "bot stores" from Facebook, Kik, Microsoft etc., or you going to integrate with them somehow? Thanks
@which_might We'll see what F8 will bring us, of course, - but the idea is to integrate with everyone we can, while working on getting the best experience of messaging with AI right
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Hey @ekuyda, it's refreshing to see a bot be 'entertaining' and part of my casual daily messaging (for once in my life). How do you think Luka compares to personal assistants (like assist.ai) or shopping apps like (operator) ? Will you be adding those features soon?
@emmie we are trying to get the user the best experience that combines messaging and AI - the bots themselves can be assistants or shopping consultants or just a simple weather bot. The main challenge is to combine them all in a seamless user experience. And we will definitely be adding shopping and assistant tasks very soon :)
This is such an interesting pivot! From restaurant recommendations from an AI to a general purpose "platform of bots"...!
I've met Luka's CEO, @ekuyda, and she's super smart. This is a great expansion of the original effort and rather than just providing a platform for other people's bots, Luka now has an army of assistants that can evolve independently, unlocking parallel bot-evolution, and targeted question-response by users. Now you can invite the right bot in a given category to a conversation you're having, instead of relying one universal bot that wouldn't be domain-specific, and therefore potentially prone to confusion.
Congrats to the team — this is an existing launch, with new funding to help them build this out!
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