Semantic Kernel

Microsoft Semantic Kernel Hits 1,000,000 Downloads

April 25, 2024 Apr 25, 2024 04/25/24

Evan Chaki

(image) A million moments of innovation, a million instances of creative coding, a million downloads. (image) Microsoft Semantic Kernel has proudly reached a significant milestone within the software development community. This achievement is not just a number—it's a beacon of collective progress and the power of open-source collaboration. ...

Introducing API Manifest Plugins for Semantic Kernel

April 25, 2024 Apr 25, 2024 04/25/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey, Mustafa Zengin

Hi all, Today we’re featuring a guest author from another team in Microsoft on our Semantic Kernel blog. We will turn it over to Mustafa Zengin to dive into Introducing API Manifest Plugins for Semantic Kernel. Semantic Kernel allows developers to import plugins from OpenAPI documents. For large APIs, such as Microsoft Graph, ...

Unit Testing with Semantic Kernel

April 24, 2024 Apr 24, 2024 04/24/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey, Dmytro Struk

Hi all, Testing is an integral part of the software development process. Unit testing allows to test your functionality in isolation. This usually means that instead of performing real work (e.g. sending HTTP request to LLM), it needs to be replaced with something that only simulates the work and return some predefined result, which will be...

Making Plans with Semantic Kernel: Implementing the Microsoft Graph Plugin

April 23, 2024 Apr 23, 2024 04/23/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey, José Luis Latorre Millás

Hi all, Today we’re featuring a guest author on our Semantic Kernel blog, José Luis Latorre Millás, an MVP for Microsoft focused on AI. We will turn it over to Jose to dive into Making Plans with Semantic Kernel - Implementing the Microsoft Graph Plugin. "Welcome back – I’m continuing where we left off in part 1 here. We ended ...

Python Kernel Updates: A Closer Look at Our Redesigned Plugin and Function Integration

April 18, 2024 Apr 18, 2024 04/18/24

Evan Mattson, Eduard van Valkenburg

As we approach a stable v1.0 version of the Python Semantic Kernel SDK, we analysed the methods used to add plugins and functions to the kernel. We realised that the variety of available methods might confuse developers. For instance, when should one use versus ? Or versus ? Our goal has always been to keep the SDK as Pythonic and simple as ...

Unlock AI Collaboration at Microsoft BUILD 2024 with Semantic Kernel

April 16, 2024 Apr 16, 2024 04/16/24

Evan Chaki

The moment we've all been waiting for is nearly here. Microsoft BUILD 2024, happening from May 21 - 23rd, is poised to be a groundbreaking event, especially for our community working at the intersection of AI and application development. I'm thrilled to announce our Semantic Kernel session - Bridge the chasm between your ML and app devs ...

Semantic Kernel Office Hours Recordings

April 15, 2024 Apr 15, 2024 04/15/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey

Microsoft Semantic Kernel Office Hour Recordings We are excited to update you on our new location for all Semantic Kernel Office Hours Recordings here: Semantic Kernel Office Hours - YouTube. Recordings from our Semantic Kernel Office Hours will be posted here one week after the session: Semantic Kernel Office Hours - YouTube (image) ...

Using Handlebars Planner in Semantic Kernel

April 11, 2024 Apr 11, 2024 04/11/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey, Teresa Hoang

We are excited to dive into the Handlebars Planner, a powerful tool for creating customized plans. This comprehensive guide will provide you with a thorough understanding on how to create your own plans using the Handlebars Planner and explain some of the planner options you can customize, such as providing additional information when ...

Customer Case Study: Cognizant & Microsoft Collaborate to Power Healthcare with Generative AI

April 9, 2024 Apr 9, 2024 04/9/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey

Cognizant and Microsoft Collaborate to Power the Future of Healthcare Administration with Generative AI Check out the entire Cognizant customer story here discussing how they use Microsoft and Semantic Kernel. Cognizant and Microsoft are collaborating to infuse generative AI into healthcare administration. This new, groundbreaking ...

Customer Case Study: DataStax and Semantic Kernel

April 4, 2024 Apr 4, 2024 04/4/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey, Greg Stachnick

Today we’ll dive into a customer case study from Datastax and their recent press release and announcement on the DataStax and Microsoft collaboration on RAG capabilities on DataStax Astra DB Thanks again to the DataStax team for their amazing partnership! Microsoft and DataStax Simplify Building AI Agents with Legacy Apps and Data In ...