X.ai to break its AI assistant out of email to help Slack and Alexa users

X.ai has raised $10 million to respond to calls by its user community for the intelligent assistant to adopt new features and move beyond English-speaking markets. X.ai previously raised about $23 million in April 2016.
The new funding will bring X.ai’s meeting scheduler assistant Amy beyond email to voice-enabled assistants like Alexa and chat apps like Slack and WeChat. Today, X.ai is only available to schedule meetings in emails. A Business Edition of Amy launched in February,