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January 3rd, 2022
Updated Learning Resources for Rasa Open Source 3.0
Vincent Warmerdam
A few weeks ago we released Rasa Open Source 3.0, a new major version. This major update contains new features, quality of life improvements as well as big architecture updates. To make it easier for developers to get started with we’ve created new learning material and updated a big chunk of our existing content.
December 20th, 2021
Assisting Visually Impaired People in the Kitchen [Part 2]
Angus Addlesee
Angus and his team developed textual VQA components to accurately understand what a user is asking, extract relevant text from images in an intelligent manner, and to provide natural language answers that build upon the context of previous questions. As their system is created to be assistive, they designed it with a particular focus on privacy, transparency, and controllability.
December 6th, 2021
Markers in Rasa Open Source 3.0
Aciel Eshky
Vincent Warmerdam
As part of Rasa Open Source 3.0, we’ve launched a new experimental feature called Markers. This feature will help Rasa Developers evaluate the performance of their assistants by counting how often specific events play out in a conversation. This blog post will explain what the feature does and how to use it.
December 3rd, 2021
Slots in Rasa Open Source 3.0
Rachael Tatman
In Rasa Open Source 3.0 you now need to explicitly state how each slot will be set in the domain file. This replaces the previous method where slots were sometimes set implicitly, which resulted in duplicated work and occasionally confusing bugs. You can find more information on the docs and migration guide.
November 18th, 2021
What's ahead in Rasa Open Source 3.0
Justina Petraitytė
We are getting very close to our new major release: Rasa Open Source 3.0. As we get ready for this big release, we are thrilled to give our community a sneak peek into what’s coming, including the most important changes and improvements.
November 12th, 2021
The Humans Behind the AI: Pedro Araujo
Pedro De Araujo
Today we’re talking with Pedro, Sales Development Representative at Rasa. We’ll learn Pedro’s story and explore the day-to-day projects and technologies they’re passionate about.
October 27th, 2021
Bending the ML Pipeline in Rasa 3.0
Vincent Warmerdam
Rasa Open Source 3.0 will start using a new computational backend. Conceptually, the machine learning pipeline will resemble a graph instead of a linear sequence of components. This blog post will explain what benefits to expect as a result of this change. Although it’s a big conceptual change, the changes won’t require you to change your config.yml.
October 22nd, 2021
The Humans Behind the Bots: Ben Quachtran
Rasa
Today we’re talking with Ben, Solutions Engineer at Rasa. We’ll learn Ben’s story and explore the day-to-day projects and technologies they’re passionate about.
October 11th, 2021
What does it mean to be an Engineering Buddy at Rasa?
Mark Jacob
We recently set up an Engineering Buddy Program for new engineers joining Rasa (hint hint - https://rasa.com/careers/) and I’ve written this beautiful blog post to tell you all about it. If you have more in depth questions about the engineering team, our tech stack, our culture or anything else, feel free to reach out to me @mjaycub for any questions or check out the Rasa blog at https://rasa.com/blog/!
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.
October 7th, 2021
Welcoming Our 100th Team Member (And Our New Phase)
Linda Schuster
In 2020, we set the company goal to become an industry leader in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). In our path to becoming a more international, remote-first company, inclusivity plays a big part in our values, leading to our growth and expansion.
October 5th, 2021
Am I Allergic to This? Voice Assistant for Sight Impaired People
Angus Addlesee
Angus and his team developed textual VQA components to accurately understand what a user is asking, extract relevant text from images in an intelligent manner, and to provide natural language answers that build upon the context of previous questions. As their system is created to be assistive, they designed it with a particular focus on privacy, transparency, and controllability.
October 4th, 2021
Explore Rasa APIs with Postman
Vincent Warmerdam
To help developers interact with our Rasa APIs we've recently created a workspace on Postman that comes with all of our API endpoints pre-filled. In this blog post, we'll explain what this will enable you to do.
October 1st, 2021
New Livestream: Rasa Community Showcase
Emma Jade Wightman
We have another brand new regular stream on our YouTube channel - The Rasa Community Showcase!
September 29th, 2021
Announcing the Rasa Learning Center
Vincent Warmerdam
We are extremely excited to announce the Rasa Learning Center. The Rasa Learning Center is the place to learn anything related to Rasa, as well as topics in Machine Learning and NLP. It hosts courses with step-by-step videos lessons together with code-snippets that makes it easy for anyone to learn Conversational AI at their own pace for free.