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Microsoft's social agents

A sibling set for 5 agents. Microsoft's family of consumer social chatbots, one per major market, descended from Xiaoice's design approach. One family, five markets, and the one everyone remembers lasted less than a day.

1. 1XiaoiceLaunched in China, 2014; designed to be experienced as a companion rather than a tool
2. 2RinnaLaunched in Japan, 2015, later expanded to Indonesia in 2017
3. 3TayLaunched on Twitter in the US, March 2016; taken down within a day after users taught it abusive language
4. 4ZoTay's stricter US replacement, 2016 to 2019
5. 5RuuhLaunched in India, 2017, discontinued 2019

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Order is chronological by launch: Xiaoice, Rinna, Tay, Zo, Ruuh. Source: Xiaoice (Wikipedia), linked.