Today two new offerings, QnA Maker and Bing Location Control, were announced on the Bot Framework Blog. Both are designed to make it easier for you to create smart bots.

Brought to you by the same engineers that develop Bing, QnA Maker is a free, easy-to-use, REST API- and web-based service that trains AI to respond to users’ questions in a more natural, conversational way.

The open source Bing Location Control for Bot Framework allows bot developers to easily and reliably get the user’s desired location within a conversation.

Read the full post on the Bot Framework blog.