I can see how non-techies will be wowed by this. For me, all I saw was massively improved natural language parser (and there are many people in this space doing exactly the same right now), and multiple references to &#x27;our friends xyz...&#x27; which seems to infer that they&#x27;ve worked with these sites to build a common (possibly closed?) API that works with Viv.<p>Yes, this is the ongoing evolution of &#x27;assistant bots&#x27; but it&#x27;s hardly ground breaking stuff so far. There&#x27;s still no real AI going on, and it&#x27;s clear that Viv (and everyone else currently working on &#x27;next gen&#x27; bots, to be honest) will be putting the onus onto the 3rd party developers to actually create anything useful.