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24 alternatives to O'Reilly Bots - #15 - Dennis Mortensen on email bots

X.ai founder talks personal assistant agents

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. O'Reilly Bots - #15 - Dennis Mortensen on email bots launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Going Deep - 95: Dennis Mortensen Saves People Time w/ Artificial Intelligence▲60
X.AI founder talks to Aaron about artificial intelligence.
2016 · goingdeepwithaaron.com · its alternatives →
2
Outerspan▲205
Deploy agents that have their own email inbox
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3
O'Reilly Bots - #3 - Dennis Yang on Bot Analytics▲63
Aspects of the web that do and don't translate to bots
2016 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →
4
Business Systems Explored #009: Dennis R. Mortensen, X.ai▲65
How x.ai coded an artificially intelligent assistant
2016 · content.libsyn.com · its alternatives →
5
Cal.ai Email Assistant▲918
World's first open source AI scheduling assistant
2023 · cal.com · its alternatives →
6
Second.Me by Me.bot▲476
The first network of AIs (Open Source)
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
7
MailClark▲198
The Slack bot for external communications
2016 · its alternatives →
8
O'Reilly Bots - #7 - Lili Cheng on bot personalities▲67
The exec behind Xiaoice and Tay talks social computing
2016 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →
9
O'Reilly Bots - #9 - Jassim Latif from Slack on workplace bots▲72
Plus a new bot from Pete and a review of Google Allo
2016 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →
10
What are conversational bots?▲102
An introduction to and overview of AI-driven chatbots
2016 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →
11
O'Reilly Bots Podcast - #8 - Real AI products arrive▲69
Hilary Mason, Jimi Smoot, Roger Chen on creating AI products
2016 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →
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O'Reilly Bots - #17 - Brad Abrams on Google Assistant▲68
A universal bot for messaging, mobile voice, and the home
2017 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →
13
Project Murphy▲140
The chat bot with imagination by Microsoft
2016 · its alternatives →
14
O'Reilly Bots Podcast: Sarah Guo on the Case for Bots▲67
Greylock Partners investor joins for episode 2
2016 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →
15
Eva▲133
Everyone's personal gifting assistant bot
2016 · vizzi.io · its alternatives →
16
O'Reilly Bots - #14 - Richard Socher on the future of deep learning▲73
Salesforce Chief Scientist/MetaMind founder on neural nets
2016 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →
17
O'Reilly Bots - #10 - Customer service with bots▲57
Michael Schneider, Rachel Law, and Alyx Baldwin
2016 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →
18
Microsoft Bot Framework▲167
Your bots — wherever your users are talking
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
19
a16z Podcast: Bots and Beyond ▲134
How can we keep bots in perspective — beyond the fad?
2016 · a16z.com · its alternatives →
20
Bots for Intercom with Converse.AI▲119
Scaling conversations in Intercom - without code
2017 · learn.converse.ai · its alternatives →
21
O'Reilly Bots - #4 - Cathy Pearl on voice user interfaces for bots▲61
The basics of VUI design
2016 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →
22
O'Reilly Bots Podcast - What are bots? Here’s the background.▲95
Why AI-driven chat bots are a big deal right now.
2016 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →
23
CalBot▲115
Carly lets you create custom AI agents with 120+ integrations. Give each agent an inbox, instructions, and tool access for email, CRM, scheduling, research, and operations.
2025 · calbotservice.com · its alternatives →
24
Alex WikiMessenger Bot▲98
A Wikipedia bot for messenger
2016 · happybots.io · its alternatives →

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