# Listen: Microsoft Acquisition Aims to Advance AI

Published 2018-05-22 · Updated 2026-07-23 · Engineering & Construction on MarketScale
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> Multinational technology company Microsoft has acquired Semantic Machines in hopes of advancing conversational artificial intelligence. Semantic Machines has developed a new approach to building conversational AI. By using machine learning, users can discover, access and interact with information and services in a much more natural way, and with significantly less effort. All eyes will…

Multinational technology company Microsoft has acquired Semantic Machines in hopes of advancing conversational artificial intelligence. Semantic Machines has developed a new approach to building conversational AI.

By using machine learning, users can discover, access and interact with information and services in a much more natural way, and with significantly less effort. All eyes will be on Microsoft to see if this acquisition makes advances in AI a new part of the conversation.

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