Facebook is going huge on improving their AI assistant M.

They've just acquired AI assistant startup Ozlo to help build “compelling experiences within Messenger that are powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning”.

Ozlo initially focused on helping users sift through restaurant listings in a conversational format.

But they've eventually expanded to include not only restaurants but also weather forecasts and more local business services, like movie listings, leveraging popular APIs like Yelp.

As we can see guys from Ozlo were doing pretty the same thing Facebook AI assistant M is trying to build and became a pretty valuable asset.

So happy to see all of these acquisitions started emerging in a chatbots space 💪🏻

https://venturebeat.com/2017/07/31/facebook-acquires-ai-assistant-startup-ozlo/