| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.01.2021 | Over 100 Voice AI Predictions for 2021 from 50 Industry Leaders | Over 100 Voice AI Predictions for 2021 from 50 Industry Leaders
Bret Kinsella on January 1, 2021 at 11:00 am
This represents our fifth annual Voice AI predictions article and there is no question it is the most interesting and insightful to... |
| 03.11.2019 | Larry Heck CEO of Viv Labs and SVP at Samsung Talks Bixby and 30 Years in Voice – Voicebot Podcast Ep 121 | Larry Heck CEO of Viv Labs and SVP at Samsung Talks Bixby and 30 Years in Voice – Voicebot Podcast Ep 121
Bret Kinsella on November 3, 2019 at 12:06 pm
Dr. Larry Heck is CEO of Viv Labs and a Senior Vice President at Samsung. In that role, ... |
| 13.08.2019 | Adam Cheyer of Samsung and Viv Labs Talks 25 Years of Voice Assistants – Voicebot Podcast Ep 109 | Adam Cheyer of Samsung and Viv Labs Talks 25 Years of Voice Assistants – Voicebot Podcast Ep 109
Bret Kinsella on August 13, 2019 at 11:54 am
Adam Cheyer is co-founder and VP of Engineering of Viv Labs and Vice President of R&D at Samsu... |
| 28.05.2019 | Marco Iacono COO of Viv and VP of Mobile R&D for Samsung Bixby Talks Voice Assistant Design and Launch – Voicebot Podcast Ep 98 | Marco Iacono COO of Viv and VP of Mobile R&D for Samsung Bixby Talks Voice Assistant Design and Launch – Voicebot Podcast Ep 98
Bret Kinsella on May 28, 2019 at 8:32 am
Marco Iacono is COO and at Viv Labs and a VP of mobile R&D prod... |
| 12.11.2018 | Adam Cheyer Co-founder of Siri and Viv and Engineering Lead Behind Bixby 2.0 – Voicebot Podcast Ep 69 | Adam Cheyer Co-founder of Siri and Viv and Engineering Lead Behind Bixby 2.0 – Voicebot Podcast Ep 69
Bret Kinsella on November 12, 2018 at 11:40 am
Adam Cheyer is a co-founder of Siri and Viv. He is the technical horsepower and visionary b... |
| 08.11.2018 | Bixby Could Land in 500 Million Samsung Devices Annually and Will Be Available to Other Manufacturers | Bixby Could Land in 500 Million Samsung Devices Annually and Will Be Available to Other Manufacturers
Bret Kinsella on November 8, 2018 at 11:46 am
Samsung’s Adam Cheyer and Dag Kittlaus (Voicebot.ai)
The 2018 Samsung Developer Conference w... |
| 06.09.2017 | The secret language of chatbots | Vadim Berman Contributor
Vadim Berman is director of engineering at Aspect Software. He came to Aspect with the acquisition of LinguaSys in 2015. Vadim co-founded LinguaSys in 2010 and was the chief technology officer. He recently moved to ... |
| 29.08.2017 | Top startups shaping the future of chatbots | Many startups are creating bots to be our personal assistants
When most people think of chatbots, they likely think of the major platforms and big companies making waves in the space, such as Facebook Messenger, Slack, Line, Amazon and Goog... |
| 17.06.2017 | At AI bot startups, cool kids rule | Joanna Glasner Contributor
Joanna Glasner is a reporter for Crunchbase.
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What does it take to be a startup that raises huge sums quickly?
Not a minimalist? Startups will gladly store, manage and deliver your it... |
| 18.03.2017 | Why Samsung wants to build a ‘corporate-wide AI voice system’ | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Samsung’s reach stretches across nearly every part of the home, from appliances to televisions, computers, tablets, light bulbs, and sm... |
| 18.03.2017 | Why Samsung wants to build a ‘corporate-wide AI voice system’ | Samsung’s reach stretches across nearly every part of the home, from appliances to televisions, computers, tablets, light bulbs, and smartphones. And the company isn’t stopping there — it’s also extending itself into third-party connected d... |
| 21.02.2017 | Samsung Betting Big On Artificial Intelligence, Looking To Spend $1B Acquiring AI Companies: Report | Alexandra Burlacu, Tech Times 21 February 2017, 10:02 am
Samsung is apparently ready to bet big on artificial intelligence, with a massive amount of money set aside for buying more AI companies.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly gaining gr... |
| 06.02.2017 | And the winners of the 10th Annual Crunchies are… | It’s that time of year again. Silicon Valley has exchanged its standard hoodie-based uniform for something a bit more festive and has made its way over to the War Memorial Opera House to celebrate the 10th Annual Crunchies. Like last year’s... |
| 26.01.2017 | How Silicon Valley is teaching language to machines | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The dream of building computers or robots that co... |
| 10.01.2017 | How AI took center stage at CES 2017 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
CES 2017 was set to be the biggest so far, with m... |
| 03.01.2017 | 1. Commercial Drone (UAV) Technology will Turn to Software | Drones, Cars, Intelligent Apps, Virtual Reality and More – What to expect in 2017
There’s an age old saying that humans tend to overestimate what can be accomplished in one day, but underestimate what can be accomplished in one year. As 201... |
| 15.12.2016 | Google Could Kill Off Samsung Galaxy S8 AI Assistant And It Just Might | Alexandra Burlacu, Tech Times 15 December 2016, 11:12 am
Google might stomp on Samsung's plans to launch the Galaxy S8 with an artificial intelligence-powered assistant, according to an industry analyst.
Back in October, Samsung acquired Vi... |
| 01.12.2016 | Remember when GZA performed at the Crunchies? | Way back in 2012, at the 6th Annual Crunchies Awards, GZA presented an award with then-writer Drew Olanoff. And then he performed. The video is above. Excuse the audio. It’s really bad for some reason.
This February TechCrunch will host ano... |
| 29.11.2016 | That time John Oliver roasted Silicon Valley at the Crunchies | Two years ago John Oliver returned to host the Crunchies for the second time. And he roasted the crowd. The video is below and it’s worth watching.
This February TechCrunch will host another Crunchies award show. This is the 10th year. A lo... |
| 21.11.2016 | Announcing the finalists for the 10th Annual Crunchies Awards | It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for.
Today, we announce the finalists in each category for the 10th Annual Crunchies Awards show.
The Crunchies is a long-standing tradition in the tech world, where readers nominate products, people a... |
| 06.11.2016 | Samsung Galaxy S8's AI Digital Assistant Will Let Developers Attach And Upload Services | Alexandra Burlacu, Tech Times 06 November 2016, 06:11 pm
Digital assistants are rapidly gaining ground and Samsung is expected to join the fray with its Galaxy S8, which will reportedly rock an artificial intelligence- powered smart assista... |
| 09.10.2016 | Samsung Electronics to Acquire Viv Labs | Samsung Electronics is to acquire Viv Labs, a San Jose, CA-based developer of an open artificial intelligence (AI) platform that gives third-party developers the tools to build conversational assistants and integrate a natural language-base... |
| 08.10.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 10/8/16 | Shopify bought Boltmade; eBay acquired Corrigon; Salesforce purchased Krux; Samsung bought Viv
Commerce platform Shopify acquired product design and development consultancy Boltmade. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
The Boltma... |
| 08.10.2016 | The difference between an A.I interface and an A.I. chatbot | A.I. is being incorporated in so many things, and we have seen how A.I. and chatbots will change startups. For those who claim their products are “A.I.-powered,” though, I must ask: Are they actually using A.I.? What are A.I. chatbots? Is S... |
| 06.10.2016 | Samsung Acquires AI Startup Viv Labs: Will We See A Siri Killer Soon? | Anu Passary, Tech Times 06 October 2016, 11:10 am
Samsung has another ace up its sleeve as it perseveres to outpace rival Apple in the race for superior mobile devices.
The South Korean OEM acquired California-based artificial intelligence ... |
| 06.10.2016 | BotBeat: This week’s top bot stories | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
VentureBeat’s Bots Channel tracks the most important news and analysis from the exploding fields of bots and messaging. Each week, we s... |
| 06.10.2016 | BotBeat: This week’s top bot stories | VentureBeat’s Bots Channel tracks the most important news and analysis from the exploding fields of bots and messaging. Each week, we select the top stories and present them in in our free weekly newsletter, BotBeat. We include news stories... |
| 06.10.2016 | Samsung’s Viv Acquisition Confirms the New Tech Battleground | Samsung’s Viv Acquisition Confirms the New Tech Battleground
Bret Kinsella on October 6, 2016 at 4:00 pm
Yesterday, Samsung announced is was acquiring Viv. You may not have heard of Viv. It is building a closely watched AI-driven voice assi... |
| 05.10.2016 | Samsung acquires virtual assistant startup Viv, whose team built Siri | Device maker Samsung today said that it has acquired Viv, a startup that was building a virtual assistant based on artificial intelligence. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
The move is clearly targeted at improving Samsung’s existing pr... |
| 21.09.2016 | Why ‘there’s a chatbot for that’ is now a thing | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Ordering flowers, booking a ride, canceling a flight, getting weather updates, checking the Forex rates, and even reading what’s hot in... |
| 30.08.2016 | If there are no APIs, there are no chatbots | Many in technology paint a rosy future for conversational user interfaces (CUI) — and rightly so.
There are many use cases where chatbots, as an example of CUIs, have the promise to make things easier for us, especially when it comes to con... |
| 18.06.2016 | Will the next Siri be empathetic? | Rupa Chaturvedi Contributor
Rupa Chaturvedi is the head of design of visual intelligence at Sentient Technologies.
AI assistants are having their moment. Just a week ago, Google announced the aptly named Assistant, an AI capable of carrying... |
| 29.05.2016 | Why do chatbots suck? | Faisal Khalid Contributor
Faisal Khalid is the founder and CEO of Eva, a chatbot for consumer mortgages.
Chatbots have been in the news a lot this year. First there was Tay, Microsoft’s racist love child, who just couldn’t keep herself unde... |
| 20.05.2016 | Siri creator may need Amazon or Apple’s help (again) for Viv, his voice assistant for everything | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Despite the media hoopla surrounding a recent public demonstration of Viv — a work-in-progress, artificial intelligence personal assist... |
| 15.05.2016 | Pioneers Festival, The Tech Community to Meet in Vienna | The 5th edition of tech conference Pioneers Festival will take place on May 24-25 in Vienna.
Participants include Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Venture Capital veteran Tim Draper, clentech innovator Boyan Slat, and self-made billionaire Ma... |
| 11.05.2016 | Beyond Siri: The AI revolution coming from the web | Eric Poindessault Contributor
Eric Poindessault is founder and CEO at Biggerpan.
From HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey to Samantha in Spike Jonze’s Her, for decades we have been obsessed with the idea that artificial intelligence powered-comput... |
| 09.05.2016 | Siri-creator shows off first public demo of Viv, ‘the intelligent interface for everything’ | Voice-controlled assistance is seeing another evolution as it looks to prove its worth as the next shift in human-computer interaction.
Today, onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, Siri creator Dag Kittlaus showed off the first public demo of V... |
| 09.05.2016 | Here’s the first demo of Viv, the next-generation AI assistant built by Siri creator | Siri co-founder and CEO Dag Kittlaus has been quietly working on a much-anticipated voice assistant powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning and integrations with third-party services. This product is called Viv and, in a world-... |
| 05.05.2016 | Viv AI Voice Assistant From Siri Creators Tipped To Debut On May 9 | Horia Ungureanu, Tech Times 05 May 2016, 07:05 am
Viv, an AI voice assistant crafted by former Siri developers, will publicly showcase its potential at an industry conference on May 9.
The team behind Viv aims to show what Siri could have b... |
| 05.05.2016 | Dag Kittlaus, co-founder of Siri, will give the world’s first demo of a next gen AI called Viv at Disrupt NY | While Siri now lives on the phones of hundreds of millions of Apple users, just a few people are responsible for helping get the now ubiquitous assistant off the ground.
One of those people is Dag Kittlaus, co-founder and CEO of Siri and no... |
| 07.04.2016 | Dag Kittlaus, co-founder of Siri, will give the world’s first demo of a next gen AI called Viv at Disrupt NY | While Siri now lives on the phones of hundreds of millions of Apple users, just a few people are responsible for helping get the now ubiquitous assistant off the ground.
One of those people is Dag Kittlaus, co-founder and CEO of Siri and no... |
| 29.02.2016 | Как ИТ-гиганты создают искусственный интеллект | С 2010 года технологии искусственного интеллекта и машинного обучения привлекают всё больше внимания инвесторов и предпринимателей. ИИ-системы уже помогают людям в повседневной жизни, однако пока помощники с цифровым «разумом» не могут выпо... |
| 28.12.2015 | 15 interesting startups to watch in 2016 | As we usher in another year, we brace for the next wave of innovation, disruption, consolidation, and dissolution. What will be the next big thing that everyone talks about? I’ve been asking around and looking at companies, trends, and what... |
| 28.12.2015 | 15 interesting startups to watch in 2016 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
As we usher in another year, we brace for the next wave of innovation, disruption, consolidation, and dissolution. What will be the nex... |
| 12.12.2015 | ‘Autonomous tech’ will surge in 2016 — keep an eye on these 8 players | We’re about to see a surge in “autonomous devices” — devices that are aware of their environment, their state, and incoming data and that have the ability to learn and make decisions on their own.
By 2020, an estimated 50 billion devices wi... |
| 12.12.2015 | ‘Autonomous tech’ will surge in 2016 — keep an eye on these 8 players | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
We’re about to see a surge in “autonomous devices... |
| 20.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 20, 2015 | Le Tote secured $15M; MindTickle landed $12.5M; Hover raised $6M funding
Hover has announced that it has raised $6 million in a Series A financing round. Alsop Louie Partners led the round with participation from existing investors, includi... |
| 23.06.2015 | The Limitless Capability Of The Next Web | Dag Kittlaus Contributor
Dag Kittlaus is co-founder and CEO of AI company Viv. Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of Siri.
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The Limitless Capability Of The Next Web
Uber made an important move last March, a ... |
| 20.02.2015 | Viv, Built By Siri’s Creators, Scores $12.5 Million For An AI Technology That Can Teach Itself | The company behind Viv, a powerful form of AI built by Siri’s creators which is able to learn from the world to improve upon its capabilities, has just closed on $12.5 million in Series B funding. Multiple sources close to the matter confir... |
| 13.09.2014 | A Cambrian Explosion In AI Is Coming | Dag Kittlaus Contributor
Dag Kittlaus is co-founder and CEO of AI company Viv. Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of Siri.
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The Limitless Capability Of The Next Web
Editor’s note: Dag Kittlaus is co-founder ... |
| 15.08.2014 | How People Are Filling In When AI Can’t Do The Job | Since Siri became a part of iOS in 2011, the idea of having a digital assistant that can help us get things done just by asking has been a central thrust of the big smartphone platform owners.
Less than a year after Apple rolled out its AI ... |
| 12.08.2014 | In the world of intelligent software agents, the real HAL may be Viv | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Siri, Cortana, and Watson: Like Google Now, they all want to be 2001‘s HAL-9000 when they grow up. But HAL might actually be Viv, if a ... |
| - | Samsung adquire startup de inteligência artificial fundada pelos criadores da Siri | A Samsung acaba de anunciar a aquisição da Viv, cofundada por Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer e Chris Brigham, criadores da Siri, adquirida pela Apple em 2010. Os três deixaram a Apple anos após a aquisição e fundaram a Viv em 2012. O valor da tr... |
