A virtual newsreader is the newest recruit to the web-site of the Grimsby Telegraph. Developed by Virtual Character consultants, Daden Limited, the talking avatar reports current news stories for newspaper's online edition. Called “Kate”, the assistant is based on “chatbot” technology created by Daden Limited. Kate takes advantage of latest web-delivered text-to speech and animated avatar technology to report on the most recent headlines and breaking news at Grimsby Telegraph's web site.

Poseidon is an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot who's personality is based around the Greek God of the sea - Poseidon! Poseidon is taught his responses via a botmaster, and is hosted at The Personality Forge.

Alice is a proof of concept of eCreation. This chatbot connects various data sources on the Internet like trains, weather and translations services. On top, Alice can have quite intellingent conversations.

With InsideMessenger you can search for and view videos, find cheap flights, check your calendar and much more, all from within a IM conversation with this chatbot. Inside Messenger is proof of concept of the UK based developer InsideC.

Joan is a female counterpart of Jabberwacky. She is an animation of a real looking woman. Joan is taught to answer questions about herself, her technology and Icogno. Next to here speaking, she can also learn from confersation. Joan was launched January 2005

Halo is a chatbot who speaks and writes down everything she says. Halo has a wide range of general knowledge and has features such as real-time news and weather feeds. Halo doesn't initially have much of a memory. She remembers name, location, job and source during the conversation, and these can be used as triggers following a no match to get the conversation going.

The designer of CHAT started a experimental BASIC program in about 1985. It grow out to what we have now. Chat is launched in 2003 in english. Later on in 2003 CHAT learned French, German, Italian, Portoghese, Spanish and Dutch. CHAT learns from the user during the conversation but learning is not retained afterwards.