GauchoAI Places 2nd in AlexaPrize SimBot Challenge
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Congratulations to UCSB team GauchoChat, who placed 2nd in the AlexaPrize SimBot Challenge. The team, led by Professor Xifeng Yan and Professor William Wang, was awarded $100,000 for their innovative work on the next generation of virtual assistants.
Throughout the competition, GauchoAI team was consistently rated by Alexa users as #1 bot among all participating university teams.