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Microsoft’s latest foray into the AI revolution, NLWeb, is poised to radically reshape the way both developers and end-users interact with the internet. With ambitions reminiscent of web standards like HTML and RSS, NLWeb introduces a new paradigm for creating AI-powered, natural language...

For years, the promise of a fully conversational web—where humans interact naturally with websites as if speaking to a human assistant—has hovered at the edge of possibility. The introduction of NLWeb, an ambitious open project from Microsoft, marks a vital inflection point in realizing that...

Building the next generation of artificial intelligence is as much about reimagining how systems are constructed and interact as it is about scaling up models. At the heart of today’s leading AI research from Microsoft is a profound shift in the design, verification, and deployment of complex...

“Ipsa scientia potestas est.” – Sir Francis Bacon In the last two posts in this series, we covered the Speech APIs and the Language Understanding APIs. In the current post, we’ll go over the Knowledge APIs. There is a natural progression to this since from speech, we derive meaning, and with...