Press Release: Semantic Machines : Microsoft Acquires Startup To Compete With Google Over Duplex Presentation

When Google unveiled the next stage of its Google Assistant technology via the Duplex conversation, the world was shocked. It would seem that machines had finally progressed to a point that they can hold entire conversations that sound as natural as if it was a human that was speaking. In order to avoid getting left behind, it seems Microsoft wants to gives its own smart assistant Cortana the same treatment and it will do so via a startup it had just acquired.