Siri Creators To Unveil New AI Personal Assistant, Viv, at Disrupt Conference NewsFactor Network

Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer, who in 2007 -- along with Tom Gruber -- co-founded the company that created Siri, now run a stealthy San Jose-based startup called Viv Labs. Yesterday, the Washington Post described Viv as "one of the most highly anticipated technologies expected to come out of a start-up this year." In a recent preview demonstration, Viv was able to have a conversation with a group of eight company engineers and then order them four pizzas with all the toppings they requested without anyone having to pick up the phone or launch a Google search, the Washington Post reported. Viv is reportedly everything that Kittlaus and Cheyer had intended Siri to be: an open system that can access data from many other Web services and use that information to take action based on its conversation with a human user. Siri had been developed with the same capabilities, but its interconnections with other Web services were ended after Apple acquired the technology, according to the Washington Post.