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Siri is a personal assistant application for the iPhone OS. The application uses natural language processing to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to an expanding set of web services. The iPhone app is the first public product by its makers, who are focused on artificial intelligence applications.

Siri's marketing claims include that Siri adapts to the user's individual preferences over time and personalizes results, as well as accomplishing tasks such as making dinner reservations and reserving a cab. [1]

Funding

Siri was founded in December 2007 by Dag Kittlaus (CEO), Adam Cheyer (VP Engineering), and Tom Gruber (CTO/VP Design), aided by Norman Winarsky from SRI's commercialization group. On October 13, 2008, Siri announced it had raised an $8.5 million Series A financing round, led by Menlo Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures. [2] In November 2009, Siri raised a $15.5 million Series B financing round from the same investors as in their previous round, but led by Hong-Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing [3]

Research and development

Siri is a spin-out from SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center, and is an offshoot of the Darpa-funded CALO project, described as perhaps the largest artificial-intelligence project ever launched. [4]

Siri's primary technical areas focus on a Conversational Interface, Personal Context Awareness, and Service Delegation. [5]

Siri's actions and answers rely upon a growing ecosystem of partners [6], including:

  • OpenTable, Gayot, CitySearch, BooRah, Yelp, YahooLocal, ReserveTravel, Localeze for restaurant and business questions and actions;
  • Eventful, StubHub, and LiveKick for events and concert information;
  • MovieTickets, RottenTomatoes, New York Times for movie information and reviews;
  • True Knowledge, Bing Answers, and Wolfram Alpha for factual question answering.[citation needed];
  • Bing and Google for web search.

See also

References

  1. ^ Siri homepage
  2. ^ Semantic Stealth Startup Siri Raises $8.5 Million
  3. ^ A Personal Assistant on Your iPhone
  4. ^ Hay, Timothy (2010-02-05). "Siri Inc. Launches 'Do Engine' Application For iPhone". Wall Street Journal (online). p. 1. Retrieved 2010-02-05.
  5. ^ Siri Technology page
  6. ^ Siri Partners page

External links

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