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A running collection of interviews, podcast appearances, and coverage from the trade press featuring Alan Nichol, Founder & CTO of Rasa. Included for the record, not for the ego. (Only mostly for the ego.)

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01 In their words

I feel like you’re probably the world’s expert on how [LLMs are] actually done in production.

Martin Casado · a16z PodcastJan 2025 ↗

We believe Rasa is destined to be an iconic company and the leading provider of conversational AI infrastructure.

Martin Casado · a16zJun 2020 ↗

Rasa’s open source tools are used by developers across JPMorgan Chase to build innovative conversational AI products.

Gill Haus · CIO, Consumer & Community Banking, JPMorgan ChaseDec 2021 ↗

Featured on the AI speaker bench at Bank of America’s Global Markets Innovation Summit — 21 cities worldwide, alongside Microsoft, Google, MongoDB, and LangChain.

Anup Menon · Global Markets, Bank of AmericaNov 2025 ↗
02 Cited in the literature
[01]

Rasa Open Source is an industry-standard framework for building conversational AI that allows developers to create sophisticated chatbots and voice assistants.

Vázquez et al. · Sensors2023 ↗
[02]

The intent-based NLU approach is used by the major industry platforms for building chat- and voice-based dialogue systems like Rasa, Dialogflow, Microsoft LUIS, and IBM Watson.

arXiv:2402.122342024 ↗
[03]

Intuitively one may imagine that frameworks by these large corporations would outperform open-source alternatives, but that is not the case.

DiVA Portal · thesis2023
[04]

Rasa NLU and Core aim to bridge the gap between research and application, bringing recent advances in machine learning to non-experts who want to implement conversational AI systems.

Alruily · Electronics (MDPI)2022 ↗
[05]

In comparison with other frameworks, Rasa showed superiority in handling complex tasks like ticket booking by utilizing database interactions, API integrations, and reinforcement learning.

Hegde et al. · Disability & Rehab: Assistive Tech2023
[06]

Statistical and neural network-based dialogue system toolkits and frameworks are heavily used in the academic and industrial research communities for implicit dialogue context management.

LREC Proceedings · ELRA2022
[07]

Rasa is utilized as the core framework for efficient management of dialogue — a reliable core upon which newer models like GPT-3.5 can be integrated.

Browne et al. · Electronics (MDPI)2024 ↗
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03 Interviews & podcasts
May 2026 The chatbot evolutionMy Data Guest · with Alessandro Romano · Ep 15 Podcast Dec 2025 Inside Rasa: navigating the future of conversational AIBluejay · Skywatch Podcast Jan 2025 AI Unicorns: Rasa races to make it in the conversational AI marketSramana Mitra · 1Mby1M Profile Jan 2025 How Rasa is revolutionising conversational AIVUX World Podcast Jan 2025 From NLP to LLMs: the quest for a reliable chatbota16z Podcast · with Martin Casado Podcast Dec 2024 50M+ Downloads Unlocked: tips to building impactful voice AIAnalytics Vidhya · Leading with Data Podcast Jun 2024 Beyond Supervised Learning: the rise of in-context learning with LLMsVanishing Gradients · Ep 28 Podcast Oct 2022 How a large financial institution went from zero to hero with CDDVUX World · case-study webinar Webinar Mar 2022 So you have a chatbot, now what?VUX World Live Podcast Aug 2020 Best practices for building conversational AI applicationsThe Data Exchange · with Ben Lorica Podcast Sep 2018 Using machine learning to improve dialog flow in conversational applicationsO'Reilly Data Show · with Ben Lorica Podcast 2020 On GPT-3, a world without intents, and RasaThe Conversation Design Podcast Podcast Jul 2020 Alan Nichol, CTO and Co-founder of RasaVoicebot Podcast · Ep 157 Podcast 2020 Open Source NLUVoice Tech Podcast · Ep 073 Podcast Jul 2018 Chatbots, conversational software, and data scienceDataFramed · with Hugo Bowne-Anderson · Ep 31 Podcast
04 Selected coverage