computer science

Niki.ai

Niki.ai is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Niki.ai rather than just read about it. In short: Niki was an artificial intelligence company headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. It was founded in May 2015 by IIT Kharagpur graduates Sachin Jaiswal, Keshav Prawasi, Shishir Modi, and Nitin Babel.

Niki.ai — illustration

Key takeaways

Niki.ai belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Niki.ai to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Niki.ai from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Niki was an artificial intelligence company headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. It was founded in May 2015 by IIT Kharagpur graduates Sachin Jaiswal, Keshav Prawasi, Shishir Modi, and Nitin Babel.

History The Niki android app was launched for a limited beta in June 2015, then released for public during YourStory's TechSparks 2015, and is a Tech30 company. The company raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding from Unilazer Ventures, a Mumbai-based VC firm founded by Ronnie Screwvala, in October 2015. This was followed by another seed funding round by Ratan Tata in May 2016. The company then raised US$2 million in Series A round of funding from SAP.iO, existing investors and some US and German-based investors, among others. Niki.ai shut down in October 2021 as per media reports. Its website has ceased operation.

Product The product is an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot which worked as an intelligent personal assistant, named Niki. Leveraging natural language processing and machine learning, Niki presented a chat-based natural language user interface to the users where they could interact with Niki in their natural language. Niki aimed to understand how users chat in India, decipher the words, in the context of product/services that they would like to purchase, and comes up with recommendations. Initially, it was only available on the Android platform as a mobile app. The company expanded its operations to the Facebook Messenger and Apple iOS platforms. The company provided 20+ services to over 2 million consumers, covering a wide spectrum ranging from utility services like mobile recharge, bill payments, travel services like cabs, buses, hotels and entertainment services like movies and events. Services such as flights and healthcare were also planned.

Partnerships In September 2017, Infosys Finacle joined with Niki.ai to provide chat-based service to banking customers. In August 2017, Niki partnered with LazyPay to enable a 'buy now, pay later' feature for its users.

See also Artificial Intelligence AI Companies of India

References

External links Official website Blog niki.ai on Medium SAP.IO Archived 25 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Niki.ai

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Niki.ai claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Niki.ai before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Niki.ai ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Niki.ai

In research: Niki.ai appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Niki.ai in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Niki.ai is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Applied machine learning, Natural language processing, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Niki.ai outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Niki.ai in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Niki.ai means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Niki.ai out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Niki.ai in simple terms?

Niki was an artificial intelligence company headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. It was founded in May 2015 by IIT Kharagpur graduates Sachin Jaiswal, Keshav Prawasi, Shishir Modi, and Nitin Babel.

Why does Niki.ai matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Niki.ai?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Niki.ai.