With 14M investment from top VCs, Ozlo opens Seattle office to help develop 'personal' AI chatbot

Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and other tech giants are all building their own "bots" that utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning. There are a bevy of other startups doing the same, developing conversational technology that can help humans with everyday tasks. But one small company out of Palo Alto, Calif. is building a virtual assistant that it believes is differentiated and special -- and some top investors seem to agree. Ozlo is a new Silicon Valley startup that last month reeled in 14 million investment round from Greylock and AME Cloud Ventures, a fund started by Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang. It also just opened its first remote office in Seattle and plans to move into a permanent location next month, with room for up to 25 employees.