Microsoft recently launched Bot Framework Composer, an open-source tool for visual bot development, and although it has been available on GitHub for a while now, Microsoft shared more information ...

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 ...

You can now combine Power Virtual Agents and the Azure Bot Framework Composer Your email has been sent New tools make it easy for low code users and pro code ...

The Bot Engine is going live today. It’s going to be interesting to dissect this new framework and see how powerful it is. It already looks more powerful than Microsoft’s equivalent. But it’s clear ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Skype group program manager Lilian Rincon at Microsoft’s Build conference in San Francisco today. Skype is getting the power of the Cortana virtual assistant thanks to Microsoft’s new bot framework, ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Today is a big day for team communication app Slack — the company is ...