A few years ago at its Build developer conference, Microsoft made its conversation as a service (CaaS) offerings the centerpiece of its announcements. This year, Microsoft made some solid advancements ...

Two years ago at its Build developer conference, Microsoft made a big push for its bot development tools and the idea of "conversation as a service." Since then, things have gone a bit quiet. But it ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A year after the launch of the Microsoft Bot Framework, today Microsoft ...

One of the more fascinating trends of this past year was the move to conversational computing. Instead of building complex apps, using bots over services like Facebook’s Messenger or Microsoft’s Skype ...

The main set of tools used to create Microsoft and Slack bots now work together, the companies told VentureBeat this week. The integration means Microsoft Bot Framework users will be able to make bots ...

During the Build 2017 keynote on Wednesday, Harry Shum, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence and Research Group, detailed the company’s plans to bring artificial ...

Microsoft introduced the Azure Bot Framework more than two years ago and companies have been building chatbots for a variety of scenarios ever since. Today, the company made generally available the ...

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The Microsoft Bot Framework features open source SDKs, developer tools and services to help coders build, test and connect conversational AI bots for apps like Skype, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Facebook ...

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The recent victory of Google’s AlphaGo over top-tier Go champion Lee Sedol put artificial intelligence back in the public mind, and Google is at the top on the list of companies most likely to produce ...