Introducing NLWeb: Bringing conversational interfaces directly to the web

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Today Microsoft is introducing NLWeb, an open project designed to simplify the creation of natural language interfaces for websites—making it easy to turn any site into an AI-powered app. Learn more about the technology and how web publishers can get started below.What is NLWeb?NLWeb is an open project developed by Microsoft that aims to make it simple to create a rich, natural language interface for websites using the model of their choice and their own data. Our goal is for NLWeb, short for Natural Language Web, to be the fastest and easiest way to effectively turn your website into an AI app, allowing users to query the contents of the site by directly using natural language, just like with an AI assistant or Copilot.Every NLWeb instance is also a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, allowing websites to make their content discoverable and accessible to agents and other participants in the MCP ecosystem if they choose. Ultimately, we believe NLWeb can play a similar role to HTML i…