Category: Artificial Intelligence

x.ai wins Best Intelligent Assistant Award

Drumroll, please! x.ai is proud to announce that we’ve won the AIconics award for Best Intelligent Assistant. The AIconics, the world’s only independently-judged awards celebrating the drive, innovation and hard work in the international Artificial Intelligence Community, announced 2016 winners at The AI Summit in San Francisco this past Wednesday. Over 100 entries representing an impressive range of AI solutions…

Artificial Intelligence, Startup

Raquel Ledezma-Haight

x.ai featured on Born in Silicon Alley

Building a startup in New York has some overlooked benefits: access to the best talent, a community that wants tech to succeed, and a little bit of “magic.” Step inside x.ai’s offices in New York City and hear more from our founders in this great video from IDG.tv.

Amy's Love Letters, Artificial Intelligence, Startup

Raquel Ledezma-Haight

Setting Amy up for success

When a new employee starts here at x.ai we have a very well-defined onboarding process so they know what they should expect day one and week one and what we expect of them during that period. This process, which we’ve refined over time, sets new employees up for success. Amy isn’t all that different. If…

Artificial Intelligence, Meeting Scheduling, Productivity

James Ekstrom

The role of AI trainers in teaching a machine to understand us

Our AI personal assistant Amy schedules meetings. To do this, she must have a natural language dialog with your guests over email; she’ll find out when they’re available, when they arrive in the city if traveling, figure out when her boss is free, and make sure a location is agreed upon. Amy negotiates all of…

Artificial Intelligence, Computing, Data, Startup

Dennis Mortensen

AI and the Fallibility Double Standard

Autonomous AI agents have begun to take over entire tasks start to finish. And this is just the beginning. We expect to see a plethora of such agents in the next half decade, and these will take on all sorts of tasks that humans currently perform, if unhappily. In many ways the machines will be…

Artificial Intelligence, Productivity

Dennis Mortensen

Watch What It Looks Like to Have Amy Schedule Your Meetings

Our friends over at BetterCloud made a super helpful video about x.ai that shows you how to set up your preferences and have Amy schedule your first meeting. If you’d like to see how easy it is to work with our AI personal assistants Amy and Andrew, check out the video below! Thanks to:

Artificial Intelligence, Calendar, Productivity

Raquel Ledezma-Haight

The best way to ask your AI assistant to schedule a meeting for you.

When email first became popular twenty-some odd years ago, the conventions for writing email didn’t exist. Were these short letters? More like half of a phone conversation? A species of notes like the ones you pass to your BFF in class? I expect if I could dredge up those first 100 electronic messages I sent, I’d…

Artificial Intelligence, Calendar, Productivity

Stefanie Syman

Summertime, and the Livin’ Is…

Here in NYC, a handful of industries still offer summer hours, which means at least every other Friday you get to cut out by midday. We wanted to find out whether the weather affects our customers’ schedules. Are they among the privileged few? Are they showing up later to sneak in a few waves? Are…

Artificial Intelligence, Calendar, Productivity

Raquel Ledezma-Haight

How x.ai uses MongoDB to build Amy

Building and training your meeting scheduling assistant, Amy, from scratch requires an immense volume of data, flexible design models and a database that can handle it all. Our CTO and co-founder, Matt Casey, explains how as we see more and more use cases its important to have a Schemaless database that would support the dynamically…

Artificial Intelligence, Computing, Data

Raquel Ledezma-Haight

Bring Your Own Intelligent Agent (BYOA) is coming. What happens when it’s here?

Over the next half decade, as more AI intelligent agents come to market, employees will increasingly deploy a suite of agents to get their job done. Those employees who DO take advantage of these agents will become more productive and along with that more attractive (both internally and externally). Much like Bring Your Own Device…

Artificial Intelligence, Productivity

Dennis Mortensen

Almost there! How we’re starting to roll out the x.ai Professional Edition

We’re a data driven bunch at x.ai. It should go without saying really, given what we’re building. Delivering Amy and Andrew to the world at large is no different. We’re staging our move from closed beta into the market very deliberately. We want to make sure we’re getting all the details right from tiering of…

Artificial Intelligence, Startup

Dennis Mortensen

Is there really an incumbency advantage in AI? x.ai explains on The Twenty Minute VC

Harry Stebbings recently hosted Dennis on The Twenty Minute VC podcast to discuss a range of topics including: 1) The a-ha moment that led Dennis and team to found x.ai. 2) How the team has trained Amy and Andrew and which is more important: data or algorithms. 3) Many VCs are concerned that large incumbents like Google…

Artificial Intelligence, Startup, Vertical AI

Raquel Ledezma-Haight

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