Telegram is giving developers $1M in grants to build bots(venturebeat.com)
venturebeat.com
Telegram is giving developers $1M in grants to build bots
http://venturebeat.com/2016/04/18/telegrams-pavel-durov-giving-developers-1-million-in-grants-to-develop-bots/
On the one hand major messaging actors (Facebook, Slack, Kik, WeChat and Line) are competing over their IM platforms. On the other hand, they are competing over who gets the best bots (thus, the developer market). No unsupervised AI is reliable, yet everyone is fighting over who gets there first.
I think the company that will seize this market has not been born yet. Thoughts ?