Amy and Andrew are performing in ways that even the best human assistant can’t match: they don’t sleep, they don’t take breaks, they never take a day off. x.ai’s approach to building a fully automated intelligent agent means our agents can operate with unrivaled speed and reliability. Over the past two weeks, we’ve halved the…
Category: Artificial Intelligence
We’re all cyborgs, and AI assistants will make us more human
In the classic 1980s dystopian sci-fi movie RoboCop, mortally wounded Detroit police officer Alex Murphy is reborn as a cyborg when his brain is implanted in a fully mechanical body. He comes back better and stronger than ever, so good at his job that later in the film, his fellow human officers go on strike…
Aspects of Deep Learning: Activation Functions
At x.ai, we have an organizational concept called “practices.” A practice is a group of people that come up with the best practices for a given area. Some of these practices are in the areas of data science, javascript, data engineering, and user testing. Some members of a practice are highly skilled in that area,…
How did x.ai turn a single user product into an enterprise product? Dennis explains on 20 Minute VC
Last week, Dennis returned to The Twenty Minute VC with Harry Stebbings to discuss x.ai’s move into the enterprise with the launch of our Business edition. Listen to the interview here. Here’s what you’ll learn from listening to the episode: How Dennis (and team) came to found one of the leading AI startups today with x.ai. Why…
Why more expensive doesn’t always mean better features, particularly for scheduling assistants
In many realms, the higher the price tag the more advanced the feature set. The rule of thumb is more $ = better stuff. This near direct relationship between the money you spend and the quality of features is, in fact, how companies across sectors justify higher prices, and it’s why you’re willing to pay…
Launching the x.ai Business edition
Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of our Business edition, which is designed for teams. x.ai makes an AI assistant who schedules meetings for you—Amy or Andrew Ingram. There’s no app and nothing to download. When you’re scheduling a meeting, all you do is cc amy@x.ai, and she’ll take over that tedious email ping…
Shining light on the invisible
In October I joined the x.ai team as the first UX/UI designer for our ‘visible’ touchpoints, working alongside another designer who focuses on the ‘invisible’ interactions of our product. I became a part of a talented team of data scientists and engineers in the pursuit of making an intelligent assistant who magically schedules meetings for…
x.ai selected to the 2017 AI 100 by CB Insights
x.ai is honored to announce that we’ve been included in CB Insight’s AI 100 list. The list recognizes a select group of emerging private companies working on groundbreaking artificial intelligence technology. CB Insights CEO and co-founder Anand Sanwal revealed the winners during The Innovation Summit. CB Insights selected x.ai (out of 1,650 submissions), along with…
How x.ai designs personality through a conversational interface
In our recent blog post, Angela (one of our data scientists) discussed how our AI personal assistants Amy and Andrew make sense of the millions of scheduling related emails that they process. This represents only one part of our system, the “read” dimension. Amy and Andrew must also respond to these emails in such a…
Why anti-lean startups are back
We’re living in an era (once again), in which startups are taking on some really gnarly technical challenges. These companies are building self-driving cars, high-speed transportation systems, AI autonomous agents, and mining 99% of the genome that hasn’t really been understood yet in terms of how it affects the human body and disease. Many of…
A peek at x.ai’s data science architecture
Amy and Andrew are AI personal assistants who schedule meetings for you. There’s no app. Nothing to download. Once you’ve agreed to meet with someone, just cc amy@x.ai and she’ll take over from there. You won’t hear from her again until she’s successfully negotiated a time and place to meet. We modeled Amy and her…
Launching the x.ai Professional edition
Today it’s official. We’re launching our Professional edition, the first of the three editions we’ll be rolling out over the coming months. Our AI personal assistants (Amy Ingram and her twin brother Andrew) schedule meetings for you. There’s no app, nothing to download. Simply cc amy@x.ai or andrew@x.ai, and they’ll take over the tedious email…