Company
Date Published
Author
Graham Neray
Word count
1143
Language
English
Hacker News points
3

Summary

x.ai is an AI-powered personal assistant that schedules meetings for users by copying them on emails to Amy (or Andrew) Ingram, who takes over the thread to find a mutually agreeable time and place. The technology behind x.ai runs entirely on MongoDB and AWS, utilizing natural language processing modules built in Scala to extract information from emails. Idris, a supervised learning engine, maintains context of each meeting and drives conversation towards obtaining necessary information to confirm the event. x.ai's data is stored in MongoDB, and the company has built an app to monitor Idris, as well as a production model that relies on MongoDB for real-time scheduling. The team uses replica sets for HA and relies on backups from MongoDB Management Service (MMS) to ensure data availability. Alex Poon, one of the x.ai founders, chose MongoDB due to its ease of exploring business models and data models, and his company has built two products that run entirely on MongoDB, including a real-time predictive analytics platform that was acquired by Outbrain.