It's combining a slick point-and-click chatbot builder with its homegrown natural language understanding engine (which Kitt.ai co-founder Xuchen Yao believes is on par with Microsoft's luis.ai and Nuance's nlu.mix).
The legal concern is arising precisely as Chinese consumers — once presumed to be an easy audience for American-made films like "Skyfall" or "The Dark Knight Rises" — have been showing a preference for homegrown, Chinese-language blockbusters.
For example, in September, the company introduced a curation feature that uses homegrown NLP (natural language processing) algorithms to automatically filter and hide comments on TV shows to reduce the "noise".
In France and India, for example, homegrown leaders offer local-language video content, thus depriving Netflix of first-mover advantage.
With 11 official languages in South Africa, its homegrown hip-hop might not have high exportability.
The Cubans played the New Orleans beats like a congenial second language, substituting precision for the New Orleans homegrown relaxation, then steered the songs toward sputtering rumba and mambo.
With a few English lyrics amid the African languages, it's an album of sweaty, homegrown funk that's danceable from end to end.
The first part of the Telugu-language war epic Baahubali, India's most expensive homegrown production ever, was the overall Indian box-office champion, with an estimated 500-crore gross.
An immigrant-friendly city of 90 languages that is home to the Kentucky Derby, the most homegrown tradition in America.
"Nothing can be more ridiculous," he wrote, "than a servile imitation of the manners, the language and the vices of foreigners". He believed that his dictionaries could contribute to this homegrown culture by reflecting the language that Americans were actually speaking.
