Google plots Embedded Google Assistant SDK, tools for developers

Google's hardware efforts have a heavy dose of Google Assistant and artificial intelligence at the company is scurrying to enlist its developer and partner base to build out functions to connect everything from Google Home to Pixel smartphones. The company said Google Assistant will its next big open platform along with search, advertising, maps, Android and Play. Make no mistake that Google Assistant's ecosystem has some catching up to do relative to Amazon's Alexa. Amazon is dangling 2.5 million in front of developers who can advance conversational AI. Alexa also has a broad ecosystem and more than 3,000 skills along with partners such as GE Appliances, publishers and a host of others such as Uber.