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Amazon recruits chat bot specialist Angel.ai's Navid Hazaad

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By John Glenday, Reporter

September 21, 2016 | 1 min read

Amazon has joined the chat bot acquisition frenzy with the hire of Angel.ai'sco-founder and CEO Navid Hadzaad to head up its new bot products division.

Following hot on the hells of Google’s purchase of API.ai Amazon’s move will see several other Angel.ai employees join the e-tailer to help smooth the integration of its technology and data - which have also been acquired.

Angel.ai originally launched as GoButler, a virtual assistant that let people request anything on-demand, but subsequently morphed into a natural language processing technology licensed to third parties.

Amazon will now seek ways of integrating this tech within its own commerce platform as it zeroes in on the holy grail of ‘conversational commerce’.

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