Line : Naver, LINE showcase AI platform Clova 4-Traders

Naver and LINE Corp. unveiled their artificial intelligence (AI)-based assistant platform Clova at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017 in Barcelona, the companies reported Thursday. According to Naver and its mobile service subsidiary, Clova, which stands for "cloud virtual assistant," aims at an AI platform that works based on the five human senses. "Clova is a platform that incorporates various AI technologies including vocal, visual and conversational engines," LINE Corp. CEO Idezawa Takeshi said in his keynote at the MWC 2017, Wednesday. The two companies are jointly developing Clova by improving Naver Labs' voice-recognizing assistant service AMICA. They said it will expand the system to have more cognitive capabilities to make it more humanlike.