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Product Updates

Check out the latest and greatest of our product updates including feature updates, updates to our product strategy, and deep dives into existing product capabilities.

February 24th, 2023

Breaking Free from Intents: A New Dialogue Model

Alan Nichol

We created a new intentless dialogue model, powered by LLMs, that goes beyond the limitations of intent-based chat and voice-bots. Learn more about it in this post.

January 17th, 2023

Let your brand speak for itself: Introducing Voice at Rasa with Rasa Pro 3.4

Lauren Goerz

With the most recent release of Rasa Pro 3.4, we have partnered with AudioCodes (A leading vendor of Voice over IP and VoIP Data Networking Products) to introduce a new voice offering for Rasa.

December 28th, 2022

Rasa Wrap: Product Recap 2022

Lauren Goerz

Here at Rasa, our mission is to empower the world’s largest brands to interpret people’s needs with open and extensible conversational AI. This past year we have demonstrated our commitment to our mission by focusing our efforts to help our customers scale their enterprise conversational AI products. Here are some of our key product milestones from 2022.

October 24th, 2022

Introducing the Rasa Platform and Rasa Pro

Lauren Goerz

The Rasa Platform is made up of two product lines. Rasa Pro, our conversational AI infrastructure suite powered by Open Source, as well as Rasa X/Enterprise, our user interface. Together, these products form one platform for the automation of conversational customer experience.

August 22nd, 2022

Behind the Release Notes: Rasa Platform 1.2

Lauren Goerz

Explore the newest features in Rasa Platform 1.2. We've enhanced the annotation experience to increase productivity, and made improvements to our integrated version control (IVC) feature to ensure your progress is saved every time.

June 23rd, 2022

Behind the Release Notes: Rasa Open Source 3.2

Lauren Goerz

With over 25+ million downloads, the Rasa Open Source Framework is one of the most widely adopted conversational AI frameworks in the world. With the release of Rasa Open Source 3.2, we want to highlight some of the key improvements and fixes that we have made to advance our Open Source Framework.

October 8th, 2021

Let’s Talk about TensorFlow 2.6

Vincent Warmerdam

Rasa will upgrade from Tensorflow 2.3 to Tensorflow 2.6 as of Rasa Open Source version 2.8.9. In this blog post, we’d like to highlight why the upgrade is needed and we’d also like to advise users on what to expect. The upgrade is required due to security concerns but it may have consequences on training times in the short term.

August 12th, 2021

Non-English Tools for Rasa NLU

Vincent Warmerdam

The Rasa community spans the globe, so we often get questions on optimising a Rasa pipeline for a wide variety of languages. Rasa is…

June 22nd, 2021

Now Available in Rasa Open Source: Conditional Response Variations

Karen White

We're excited to announce the experimental release of conditional response variations, now available in Rasa Open Source 2.6.

June 10th, 2021

Rasa X Two Years Later: CDD, Data, and What it Means for Customer Experience

Alan Nichol

Reflecting on changes to the market and the product in the two years since Rasa X was released.

April 19th, 2021

Why Rasa uses Sparse Layers in Transformers

Johannes Mosig
Vladimir Vlasov

Feed forward neural network layers are typically fully connected, or _dense_. But do we actually need to connect every input with every output? And if not, which inputs should we connect to which outputs?