[sapphireblue]

Even if we relax hardware requirements, e.g. assume a Xeon+Titan X hardware, it is still a question if a viable conversational agent that uses deep learning to generate conversations and adapt to surroundings can be developed around it. Maybe it is possible to use DL to extract some meaning vector (or textual description) that is later used by conventional NLP chatbot to converse with user. I wonder if the quality will be good enough.

Also we don't know if the company will really develop their product to fruition, they may simply develop a good (but not viable as a product) demo and be acqui-hired by one of big players.