Alphabet Incorporated, the parent company of Google today at its Silicon Valley headquarters unveiled a new mobile messaging application Wednesday called Allo containing a digital personal assistant, based on artificial intelligence (AI) technology that powers other Google services like Inbox.
At its I/O developer conference near its Silicon Valley headquarters, the company also showed off a voice-based search device called Google Home that uses the same assistant technology to answer questions when people are in their houses, a potentially potent rival to Amazon.com Inc.’s popular Echo gadget.
