Siri is not smart enough, the founder builds Viv

In 2010, Apple bought 200 million dollars for siri;2011 years, and Apple officially launched the AI personal assistant Siri. Today, Siri has 500 million global users, 200 million-month active users, and more than 100 million people use Siri every day to create an expanding myth in the history of science and technology.

But even so, Siri's two founders felt that Apple had limited Siri to an Apple device-centric accessory, dealing with things that had been programmed in advance and didn't know what to learn from. After leaving Apple, they set up a start-up, called Viv Labs, to build an intelligent, new-upgraded assistant: Viv, which understands complex sentences, learns from the user's use of it, and helps to accomplish things. That's what IPhone users think of Siri.

According to the previous wired introduction, VIV can dock other applications and services to complete the booking, play, find information and many other things. But what's even better is that it can even do something without programming. This intelligence is designed to keep learning-all VIV instances will connect to the same brain on top of the cloud, accumulating what is learned from individual users and strengthening their intelligence. The AI is said to have been able to accurately handle complex flight requests, like this: Book me a July 2 cheapest ticket from San Francisco to Charles de Gaulle airport, back to the next Monday.

In addition to booking tickets, Viv can answer "what is the population of Lincoln's birthplace" like the ambitious perceptual programming that Stephen Wolfram to build? "Such a question. You told him, "On my way to my brother's house, I have to buy some wine with lasagna." "It can be obeyed."

The key is to correct the sentence and the composition and grammar analysis, although from a human point of view is not difficult to understand, but at present, most of the intelligent personal assistant has not been able to do. In addition, it is not clear whether the VIV needs Third-party Developer Support or the ability to access other apps on its own.

VIV was founded jointly by Dag Kittlaus, Adam cheyer and Chris Brigham. The top two were the founders of Siri, who was also an early member of the Siri team. VIV Since its inception, has been favored by the capital, has received 10 million U.S. dollars a round of financing, the investment party for Li Ka-shing's Horizons ventures. According to Mashable News, recently completed a 12.5 million-dollar round of financing, Iconiq capital.

People familiar with the matter said that Viv is not short of money, this time to receive financing, is mainly a fancy iconiq capital behind the resources. Iconiq Capital's founding team, mainly from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, began providing financial and tax services to Facebook's founders in 2006, and formally established Iconiqcapital in 2011 to include the CEO of Facebook, Executives such as COO and CEOs provide wealth management services. Since then, there has been a growing number of iconiqcapital services through Facebook, including game company Zynga founder Mark Pincus. At present, the management of funds over 10 billion dollars. Earlier, Mark Zuckerberg bought all the houses next to his home and was Iconiq capital.

A new venture, a personal assistant, is not intended to be sold to an exclusive company, but to the hope that it will appear in more devices, including mobile phones, PCs and television. The point of choosing Iconiq Capital,viv is already obvious. In fact, the Facebook behind Iconiq Capital is already the best rival Viv can pick. Apple, which has bought Siri, has been building up its own AI team, which has bought a number of AI companies and has launched Google Now, and will not want to play with Facebook. Facebook has the money and the users, and it gives a lot of operational autonomy to the companies it buys, not to mention just the companies that invest. No, Viv says they will also buy the right companies at the right time.