Inventor behind Amazon’s Alexa raises funds for AI startup


Although selling millions of Echo speakers and employing 10,000 people to work on Alexa in the years since, Amazon has struggled to keep customers engaged, Bloomberg has previously reported. — Amazon/TNS

The inventor of several key technologies used by Amazon.com Inc’s Alexa service raised US$20mil (RM90.07mil) to fund a new startup in the UK.

William Tunstall-Pedoe’s said his Cambridge- and London-based company, Unlikely AI, needed the money to start hiring developers of a new type of artificial-intelligence software.

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