Microsoft Brands Chat Bot 'Xiaoice'

US-based technology giant Microsoft, 5 years ago Xiaoice He announced it during a conversation called. This chat bot was designed mostly to serve China and surrounding countries. In its statements about the chat bot, Microsoft stated that it has access to 450 million third-party smart devices and 600 million He also announced that he reached the user. The company has now announced that it has made a new decision regarding this chat bot.

Introduced for the first time in 2014, Xiaoice was quickly adopted by Chinese consumers. Even Chinese users use this chat bot as a virtual girlfriend They described it as. The main reason for this qualification was that Xiaoice took a more human approach than similar chat bots. In fact, Microsoft did this on purpose. Because the company says that the chat bot interacts with users. to be friends He explained what he wanted.

Microsoft turns Xiaoice into a brand

According to the latest statements made by Microsoft, the company's Chinese chat bot, Xiaoice, is a brand it will become. This means that Microsoft will establish a new company. According to the statements made, the name of this company will continue to remain as "Xiaoice". So Microsoft is making the Chinese chat bot more official will have brought it together.

During the process, Xiaoice went outside China and reached countries such as Japan and Indonesia. Not ignoring this situation, Microsoft, as well as Xiaoice Rinna It will also retain the trademark rights to its name. It looks like Microsoft's chatbot will continue to serve consumers under the name Xiaoice in China and Rinna in Japan.

Even though Microsoft wants to take its voice bot to a much better point Chinese administrationLooks like he might not be too happy about this situation. Because the government had come head to head with Microsoft in recent times. Even Tencent-owned instant messaging app QQXiaoice had to cut its support due to problems with the Chinese government.

A former executive at Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence Unit Harry Shum, will be the number one name of the Xiaomi company. Chen Zhan, one of the developers of Rinna, has been appointed as the head of Rinna, the Japanese leg of the chatbot. With this step, Microsoft chat bot He thinks that he can reach a much further point in his sector.