>For example, Cohere is providing the NLP capability for Ada, a recent unicorn company in the chatbot space. Ada has experimented with the Cohere natural-language models to match customer chat requests with available support information. Rather than trying to anticipate all the possible wordings of a request, Cohere’s model tries to understand the intent behind it, Gomez says.

>Cohere, he says, offers a platform containing a “full stack” of NLP functions, including sentiment classification, question answering, and text classification.

Google (Cloud Natural Language, Dialogflow), Microsoft (Azure LUIS, Bot Service), Amazon (Lex), and IBM (Watson Assistant, Watson Discovery) all offer Conversational AI and NLP APIs that do exactly what these guys are trying to do here. What is new or unique about them? I work in this space, and the Chatbot/Conversational AI market has been flooded with startups all doing the exact same thing for the last 3-4 years.