US EditionNLWeb Is Microsoft's Project to Bring More Chatbots to Web Pages
- Microsoft announced NLWeb at BUILD 2025 as an open protocol enabling websites and apps to offer AI-powered natural language search features.
- Ramanathan V. Guha, a senior expert at Microsoft known for creating RSS and Schema.org, developed NLWeb to make conversational AI more accessible despite the internet’s longstanding issues with centralization.
- NLWeb requires minimal coding, the site’s own data, and an AI model to process complex queries and remembers user preferences like dietary restrictions.
- Guha described NLWeb as a system that enables users to pose questions in everyday language, with responses delivered in a structured format, and noted that partners involved include Shopify, TripAdvisor, Eventbrite, and O'Reilly.
- NLWeb aims to let websites interact, transact, and be discoverable by agents, potentially playing a role akin to HTML for the evolving agentic web.
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At Microsoft's Build 2025 conference, the company unveiled NLWeb, an open protocol that makes it easier to embed AI bots on websites. NLWeb allows any site to add an interface and turn web pages into interactive AI applications.
Is Microsoft’s use of NLWeb to create AI app good or bad?
conference, NLWeb, short for Natural Language Web, is designed to help enterprises build a natural language interface for their websites using the model of their choice and data to answer user queries about the contents of the website.” The May 20, 2025 article entitled “Why is Microsoft offering to turn websites into AI apps with NLWeb?” (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3990399/why-is-microsoft-offering-to-turn-websites-into-ai-apps-with…
Microsoft Wants Websites to Have an AI-Powered Natural Language Interface
Microsoft introduced a new open project dubbed NLWeb at its Build 2025 conference on Monday. Short for Natural Language Web, the NLWeb project aims to build an interface to websites that support artificial intelligence (AI) models. With AI capabilities, these websites will then support natural language queries by users and provide answers for those queries.
On the occasion of its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft announced the launch of NLWeb, an open source project aimed at simplifying the creation of conversational interfaces on the Web. This initiative marks an important step towards a more interactive Web, focusing on IA agents and natural language interfaces. NLWeb, a " ChatGPT-like" interface in just a few steps, is an important step towards a more interactive Web, focused on IA agents and nat…
The next major evolution of the Web? Microsoft believes in a Web where IA chatbots are available for interaction and naturally dialogue with each site. A NLWeb project that is open source.
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