In 2014 the group of programmers from St. Petersburg under the leadership of Sergey Ulasen developed the first-ever chat-bot Evgeny Gustman who became one of the first programs which managed to convince group of judges that they communicate with the real person.
At the beginning of 2017 Sergey with group of colleagues joins Acronis as the director of development. Its group is engaged in development of solutions for semantic search, natural language search and also use of technologies [[artificial intellekt|of the artificial intellekt]] for data protection.