Chatting you up: Former Facebook exec is using AI to build the ultimate chatbot assistant

What do you get when you take the former head of platform at Facebook, a former Mozilla engineer, veterans of other companies like Microsoft and Amazon, and an interest in building an assistive chatbot that stands apart from competitors in the space? The answer is Ozlo, a chatbot in the form of a cute, blue critter that answers questions from users with cards that contain deep links to relevant apps and websites. The company built around the service – headed up by CEO Charles Jolley, the former Facebook platform head – has offices in Palo Alto and Seattle and a workforce of 28. MUST READ: iPhone 7: Seriously, this phone sounds boring to you? And it landed a 14 million investment in May from Greylock and AME Cloud Ventures partly because Ozlo represents something a little different in a world that's starting to move from apps to more voice interaction with our devices.