Thursday, November 30, 2017

Replika Finds $6.5M For AI Chatbot

San Francisco-based Replika, a startup developing artificial intelligence-driven chatbots, has raised $6.5M in a Series A.2 funding round, the company said this morning. The funding was led by Khosla Ventures, Sherpa Capital, Phil Libin, co-founder of Evernote, and Richard Socher, chief scientist at Salesforce. Replika offers up an online service which it bills as an "AI friend that's always there for you." The comapny said it has now raised $11M in total. More information »