Artificial Intelligence Now

Chapter 18. Infographic: The Bot Platforms Ecosystem

Jon Bruner

Behind the recent bot boom are big improvements in artificial intelligence and the rise of ubiquitous messaging services. In Figure 18-1, I’ve listed some of the most important AI, messaging, and bot deployment platforms, and have also highlighted the emergence of a few interesting stacks: Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Apple each control a general AI agent as well as at least one entry elsewhere in the stack—and Facebook may not be far behind with its M agent.

Figure 18-1. The bot platform ecosystem (full-size version at oreilly.com)

Jon Bruner

Jon Bruner oversees O’Reilly’s publications on hardware, the Internet of Things, manufacturing, and electronics, and has been program chair along with Joi Ito of the O’Reilly Solid conference, focused on the intersection between software and the physical world.

Before coming to O’Reilly, he was data editor at Forbes Magazine, where he combined writing and programming to approach a broad variety of subjects, from the operation of the Columbia River’s dams to migration within the United States. He studied mathematics and economics at the University of Chicago and lives in San Francisco, where he can occasionally be found at the console of a pipe organ.