SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gupshup, a leading bot platform, announced today it has made Microsoft Cognitive Services available on InterBot, its bot-to-bot communications channel. Developers will now be able to quickly and easily incorporate the intelligent capabilities of Cognitive Services to build bots for Microsoft Teams, Skype and Skype for Business, Cortana and more.
The new Cognitive Services available on InterBot include:
- Bing News Search - provides up to the minute access to the latest news
- Bing Image Search - quickly search for relevant images from across the web
- Bing Video Search - accurately search for the latest videos
- Text Analytics - detects sentiments and key phrases in a sentence
- Computer Vision - returns information about visual content found in images
“Interbot helps developers make their bots smarter by enabling them to tap into the collective intelligence of other bots and services, such as those offered by Microsoft Cognitive Services,” explained Beerud Sheth, CEO of Gupshup. “Microsoft has openly embraced the developer ecosystem, and we are proud to collaborate with them to bring the power of Microsoft Cognitive Services to the InterBot platform.”
Irving Kwong, Group Program Manager, Microsoft Corp. said, "In the growing bot development ecosystem, our mutual customers rely on platforms like InterBot to provide the necessary tools to create intelligent and engaging bots. We are pleased to see Gupshup make Microsoft Cognitive Services available on InterBot, and help further our goal of bringing greater intelligence and simplicity to the bot development process."
With InterBot, developers create more advanced bot interactions by giving these bots the ability to communicate, collaborate, compete and chain with one another. Utilizing InterBot's simple interface, developers can create or import bots to the platform and then connect them to other bots in order to provide new and wholly unique functionality and services.
To find out more about today's announcement, or speak with Gupshup’s Beerud Sheth, please contact George Morin at Gupshup@RLMpr.com or (646) 517-4334.
About Gupshup
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Gupshup is the leading bot platform for building advanced bots quickly and easily. It offers cross-platform APIs, bot builder tools and Interbot communication channel to enable even the most advanced bots. Gupshup is used by more than 30,000 developers building services that process over 4 billion messages per month and more than 150 billion cumulative. For more information, please visit www.gupshup.io