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Revolutionizing AI Workflows: Multi-Agent Group Chat with Copilot Agent Plugins in Microsoft Semantic Kernel  Copilot Agent Plugins (CAPs) are revolutionizing how developers interact with Microsoft 365 data. By transforming natural language into seamless CRUD actions using Microsoft Graph and Semantic Kernel, CAPs enable the creation of intelligen...

10 Lessons teaching everything you need to know to start building AI Agents Today we want to highlight the AI Agents For Beginners course that was released. 🔗https://github.com/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners/tree/main Start learning and building in the exciting world of AI Agents today! From the Semantic Kernel t...

OpenAI’s o3-mini is a newly released small reasoning model (launched January 2025) that delivers advanced problem-solving capabilities at a fraction of the cost of previous models. It excels in STEM domains (science, math, coding) while maintaining low latency and cost similar to the earlier o1-mini model. This model is also available as Azure...

Today we'd like to feature a guest author on our Semantic Kernel blog, Mahmoud Hassan, a Microsoft Valuable Professional (MVP) focused on AI. We'll turn it over to him to dive into his work below.   In recent days, there has been significant attention in the AI community regarding DeepSeek-R1 and its capabilities. Many people are play...

Azure OpenAI Chat Completion with data source provides powerful capabilities for integrating conversational AI into applications. However, using a data source and function calling in a single request is not supported yet. When both features are enabled, function calling is ignored, and only the data source is used. This presents a challenge when re...

As we move into the first half of 2025, I'm excited to share our ambitious roadmap that we hope will enable you to build even more sophisticated AI applications with Semantic Kernel. Agent Framework 1.0 By the end of Q1 2025, the SK Agent Framework will transition from preview to general availability (GA). This milestone marks a commitmen...

DeepSeek recently awed the AI community by open sourcing two new state-of-the-art models, the DeepSeek-V3 and a reasoning model, the DeepSeek-R1, that not only claim to be op-par with the most capable models from OpenAI but are also extremely cost-effective. We'd like to highlight the recent announcement from the Azure AI Foundry team highlighting ...

AI Connectors in Semantic Kernel are components that facilitate communication between the Kernel's core functionalities and various AI services. They abstract the intricate details of service-specific protocols, allowing developers to seamlessly interact with AI services for tasks like text generation, chat interactions, and more.   ...

Windows PowerToys has always been one of my favorite productivity hacks, and its latest release adds Paste with Advanced AI, which takes it to a new level. This feature, powered by Semantic Kernel, transforms how you work with text, images, and data from your clipboard by applying AI-driven enhancements. What Does It Do? Advanced Paste us...

ONNX GenAI Connector for Python (Experimental)  With the latest update we added support for running models locally with the onnxruntime-genai. The onnxruntime-genai package is powered by the ONNX Runtime in the background, but first let’s clarify what ONNX, ONNX Runtime and ONNX Runtime-GenAI are.  ONNX ONNX is an open-source format for AI model...