PRESS RELEASE

January 17th, 2019

A new era form MLS:

MAIC™  A new European AI and Voice recognition platform

MLS Innovation Inc announces the official launch of the new MAIC™ (MLS Artificial Intelligence Center), the first of its kind European AI and Voice Recognition Platform. The new platform by MLS is the most important and most valuable project that MLS has implemented in its 29-year history.

The platform, after a prelaunched period, is being launched today in Greek, in the Greek and Cypriot market simultaneously. It will be available in 7 more European languages and markets within 2019. During prelaunch period, which lasted four months, 3000 users, both MLS testers and early adopters (who bought the device in Greece and Cyprus) are already onboard on MAIC™ platform.

Specifically, MAIC™(www.maic.gr) can play any kind of music even according to the user's mood, find radio stations worldwide, show music and all kinds of videos, play cartoons, inform you about weather conditions from any part of the world, show the news, keep reminders, search for points of interest, find you a good restaurant. MAIC can help you get in a good mood, advise you in the kitchen, show you any recipe you like, tell you a joke, a fairy tale, even help you sleep.

Moreover, with its Smarthome feature, it can also manage lamps in any room, turn them on and off, control their color and brightness, can manage smart plugs and consequently all domestic appliances that are connected to a smart plug, like turn the coffee maker on, close the shutters, control a smart TV, manage and receive information from smart thermostats.

The new MAIC™ is a dynamic platform, which can be enriched with new skills and intelligence via automatic updates. You can now watch popular TV series and films on Netflix™ and there is support for Spotify™. Video call capabilities were also added. Video calls are made in a friendly environment that can be easily navigated even by technologically illiterate.

MAIC™ learns the user's preferences and habits over time so that it can respond to them offering personalized solutions and options. It is aimed at audiences of all age groups, from young children to the elderly, as its use is very simple even for people who are not familiar with technology. The experience of communicating with the new MAIC™ is very close to day-to-day communication with a human speaker, since it can engage in rich dialogue even from a distance. The new MAIC™ "has feelings", humor, smiles, gets happy or angry, is ashamed, blinks her eye, simulating "human reactions".

MAIC™ uses state-of-the-art technologies such as automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language processing, mechanical learning, computational linguistics and automatic voice-to-text conversion (TTS). Combined with the support for various European languages (Latin and non-Latin) and personalities (male, female, special personality for kids), it is a truly unique, original, yet innovative, smart and user-friendly digital assistant. Today 100 million Americans own such smart devices in their households, and according official studies, their lives have changed remarkably since the launch of Amazon's Alexa™.

The new platform is embedded in a new category of household appliances, the Smart display, with High quality audio playback. MAIC™ works very easily at any point in the house that has access to power and WiFi and is available in technology and mobile phone stores.

MAIC is the most daring but also the most essential step in the company's commitment throughout the years to make life for people easier (Making Life Simple).

About MLS Innovation Inc.

MLS Innovation Inc. was founded in 1989 with the aim of developing and delivering innovative technologies that simplify everyday life (Making Life Simple). In 1998, MLS won the European Union Grand IT Prize Award for Laserlock™, a patent that prevented the copying of Software CD-ROMs and was already sold in more than 40 countries. The company continued to innovate by offering the first Greek CD-ROM, the first Greek Electronic Encyclopedia and the first Talk & Write™ and Translation Software (MLS Systran™). In the 2000s, it entered the electronics market, developed and launched the first portable navigation device with built-in Voice Recognition, MLS Destinator Talk & Drive™. The device reached the windshield of hundreds of thousands of cars in Greece as well as in seven other countries. In the decade of 2010, the company launched the development of Smartphones and Tablets, using the technologies of voice recognition and artificial intelligence to reach hundreds of thousands of Greeks each year. MLS recently added MLS Easy™ to its innovative products. It is a mobile phone with buttons and touchscreen, 4G, with a very easy operating system where everything is done with the voice. It is aimed at 1/3 of Europeans who still have mobile phones with buttons. The company operates in 4 countries since 2018 and plans to expand to 3 more countries.

For more information visit:

https://maic.gr/

https://www.mlsinnovation.com/