Version 12 takes advantage of the recent advances in deep learning to bring state-of-the-art capabilities in natural language understanding. New reading comprehension functions can be used on text to answer questions or extract semantic contents. Additionally, a collection of pre-trained neural net models is available to be used as is or fine-tuned to a specific language task. Finally, the neural network framework has been updated with specific capabilities for text, making it one of the easiest tools to solve natural language problems.