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As part of an effort to make building AI-powered chatbots on the web simpler, Microsoft is launching an open project called NLWeb. <\/p>\n
Announced at Build 2025, NLWeb lets websites provide a \u201cconversational interface\u201d \u2014 i.e. a text field and a submission button \u2014 for their users with a few lines of code, the AI model of their choice, and their own data. A retailer could use NLWeb to create a chatbot that helps users choose clothing for specific trips, for example, while a cooking site could use it to build a bot that suggests dishes to pair with a recipe.<\/p>\n
Web pages built using NLWeb can optionally make their content discoverable and accessible to AI platforms that support MCP<\/a>, Anthropic\u2019s standard for connecting AI models to the systems where data resides.<\/p>\n \u201c[W]e believe [NLWeb] can play a similar role to HTML for the agentic web,\u201d writes Microsoft in press materials provided to TechCrunch. \u201c[It] allows users to interact directly with web content in a rich, semantic manner.\u201d<\/p>\n Microsoft didn\u2019t say either way, but NLWeb may have its origins in tech from ChatGPT maker OpenAI, Microsoft\u2019s close collaborator. <\/p>\n