[amix]

Tried API.ai a few months ago and was very unimpressed with the results (things were slow, expensive and not very powerful. Rebuilding the models was also broken at times). I am unsure why Google are acquiring them, especially given that they have DeepMind and TensorFlow teams.

[ginger_beer_m]

Can it do anything that can't be done locally using off-the-shelves packages like nltk etc?