Microsoft Buys Conversational AI Company Semantic Machines

As Microsoft has been focused on developing speech recognition and natural language technology for over two decades, the company has a goal of expanding its vision where computers around the world can see, hear, talk and understand as humans. This led to the introduction of the Cognitive Services framework in 2016. The Cognitive Services framework revolves around the development of bots and the integration of speech recognition and natural language understanding into intelligent assistants. There are now over 1 million developers using Microsoft Cognitive Services and over 300,000 developers using the Azure Bot Service.