NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- x.ai, inc., an artificial intelligence company, today announced that it is releasing its first paid product, the Professional edition of its AI personal assistant.
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x.ai launched a beta version of its AI personal assistant in June 2014. (All you do is cc amy@x.ai, and she takes over the job of scheduling your meeting.) Since then, Amy and her brother Andrew have scheduled hundreds of thousands of meetings and processed millions of scheduling-related emails.
For the past two and half years, x.ai has been training Amy by amassing and annotating a huge data set and building her core infrastructure. In the era of the "lean startup," such a long product development cycle is rare. "Teaching a machine to understand natural language, even using the most advanced data science, is by any definition super hard," says CEO/Founder Dennis R. Mortensen. "Add to that the fact that meeting scheduling is a high accuracy setting. So it was important for us to wait to roll out a paid product until we felt Amy was smart enough to schedule meetings nearly flawlessly."
Targeted to individuals, the Professional edition lets customers schedule unlimited meetings every month. Features also include VIP contacts (who can schedule meetings with you directly through Amy) and personalized signatures. The monthly subscription fee is $39.
"As a startup CEO, I schedule lots of meetings, and it was very hard to schedule everyone that I wanted to meet. Once I had access to Amy, I was able to consistently schedule twice as many meetings with a small fraction of the effort," said Ry Walker, CEO of Astronomer. "There's no question in my mind that x.ai has helped me move faster to do my real job, which is to build a great company."
x.ai began testing the Professional edition this past summer to validate its tiering. Current Professional customers include employees from Walmart, Salesforce, LinkedIn, The New York Times, and One Zero Capital, among many other companies.
About x.ai, inc.
x.ai makes an Artificial Intelligence personal assistant who schedules meetings for you. The company was founded in 2014 by former Visual Revenue CEO Dennis R. Mortensen and co-founders Alex Poon, Matt Casey, and Marcos Jimenez. The wider founding team members are industry veterans from the analytics, predictive modeling and machine learning world. x.ai is based in New York City.
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Media Contact: Stefanie Syman, x.ai, Inc., (917) 453-6470, stefanie@human.x.ai
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