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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.
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?
March 4th, 2021
Exploring Semantic Map Embeddings / Part II
Rasa
Johannes Mosig
In this second part of our series on semantic maps, we show how to create them and see how they perform as featurizers for DIET.
February 24th, 2021
Exploring Semantic Map Embeddings / Part I
Johannes Mosig
We explore a new sparse text embedding that has some interesting properties.
February 23rd, 2021
Discover Actionable Ways to Improve your Training Data with Insights
Karen White
Insights analyzes your training data and suggests next steps to improve your data set.
December 8th, 2020
Introducing A New Rich-Text Editor For Managing Responses
Karen White
With the release of Rasa X 0.34.0, we’re excited to announce that the Responses screen has a new look and improved user experience.
October 27th, 2020
Get Creative with the Rasa Playground: an Interactive Tool for Building Assistants
Karen White
We’ve recently launched the Rasa Playground, an interactive prototyping tool built right into the Rasa docs.
October 16th, 2020
Introducing the Unified Rule Policy
Karen White
With the Rule Policy, we draw a clearer distinction between policies that use predefined logic and those that learn to predict the assistant’s next action from data.
October 8th, 2020
Now Available: Rasa Open Source 2.0
Rasa
We’re excited to announce the release of Rasa Open Source 2.0. This major release is full of enhancements that reduce the learning curve to get started while expanding configuration options for advanced users.
August 24th, 2020
Now Available: Rasa X 0.32.0
Rasa
Rasa X 0.32.0 includes updates to make you more productive in the NLU inbox, as well as Enterprise enhancements.
August 12th, 2020
Introducing Entity Roles and Groups
Mady Mantha
At a fundamental level, natural language understanding (NLU) does two things: it identifies the goal or meaning of the text and extracts…
July 24th, 2020
What’s Ahead in Rasa Open Source 2.0
Alan Nichol
We’re excited to give the community an in-depth look at what we’ve been working on for Rasa Open Source 2.0. With the release of our first alpha, now you can try it out.