Apple acquires init.ai

Earlier this week, a small startup called Init.ai announced that it soon would be discontinuing its service.

The team was (according to a notice on the site) “joining a project that touches the lives of countless people across the world.”

They are becoming a part of the group working on Siri.

To be clear, this is not a straight acquisition, but more of an acqui-hire, so Apple didn’t have a comment to offer along the lines of the one it made last week.

Huge news for all the bot space 💪🏻

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/04/apple-acqui-hired-the-team-from-messaging-assistant-init-ai-to-work-on-siri/