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Chatbots are the new mobile application. In this article, Nick demonstrates how you can integrate a bot right into your Universal Windows Platform app via the Microsoft Bot Framework Direct Line API.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At its Build Conference 2016, Microsoft announced the Microsoft Bot Framework, stating that it "provides "everything you need to build and connect your bots to your users wherever they converse - from ...

The French AI company Mistral is launching a framework for creating AI agents. They access external data sources via built-in connectors. Mistral AI has introduced Agents API, a framework that enables ...