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As the Microsoft Ignite event approaches on November 16th, we are excited to invite you to join us for a live session at the Seattle Convention Center Summit. This gathering is a special opportunity for business leaders and AI enthusiasts to gain insight into the advancements of Semantic Kernel, particularly in the realms of Plugins, Planners, and ...

During the OpenAI event earlier today, OpenAI announced the launch of GPTs and the assistants API, the new and improved ways of creating agents on top of their chat completion models. With assistants, much of the heavy lifting required to build agents has been stripped away… This ultimately means it’ll be faster, and easier, for yo...

In this blog post, we show you how you can use Semantic Kernel with AutoGen, a Microsoft Research project that shows the potential of using multiple agents together. With AutoGen, Microsoft research has shown that multiple agents can be better than one. To actually do work, however, agents within AutoGen need hooks into the real world so they ca...

Semantic Kernel v1.0 has shipped and the contents of this blog entry is now out of date. In a previous article, we announced the beta launch of Semantic Kernel v1. In that article, we shared the initial breaking changes we made for v1: 1) renaming skills to plugins, 2) making Semantic Kernel AI service agnostic while still supporting first cla...

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized our interaction with software. However, there's a catch - their responses can be monotonous and impersonal. This is where 'personas' come in. They add a human touch to LLMs, transforming generic outputs into customized responses that resonate with users. This is particularly handy in applications lik...

Chat Copilot Release 0.5 introduces the integration of Semantic Memory (SM).  Chat Copilot now utilizes the ISemanticMemoryClient interface from SM instead of the ISemanticTextMemory interface associated with Semantic Kernel memory connectors. Semantic Memory (SM) is an open-source platform specialized in the efficient indexing of datasets t...

Semantic Kernel v1.0 has shipped and the contents of this blog entry is now out of date. As mentioned in the Skills to Plugins blog post, the Semantic Kernel team has been preparing the Semantic Kernel SDK for v1.0.0. Today, we're making our first big push by releasing the first release candidate: v1.0.0-beta1. This release has several breaki...

Over the past several weeks, the Semantic Kernel team has been hard at work preparing for the v1.0.0 release at the end of the calendar year. As part of this change, we wanted to complete any remaining breaking changes so developers could have a stable API moving forward. If you are interested in seeing what these changes are, you can preview the...

Semantic Kernel is a powerful SDK that enables developers to build intelligent applications with ease. With the latest update to the .net SDK, the addition of pre and post hooks takes the functionality of Semantic Kernel to new heights. Benefits of Pre and Post Hooks Pre and post hooks provide developers with a way to intercept function executi...

Error handling is an essential aspect of application development. It ensures that applications can gracefully handle unexpected situations and provide meaningful feedback to users. In this blog post, we will explore the recent improvements made by the team to the error handling mechanism in the Semantic Kernel (SK) .net library. SKException: M...