Showing results for February 2025 | Semantic Kernel

Feb 28, 2025
Post comments count1
Post likes count3

Release the Agents! SK Agents Framework RC1

Shawn Henry
Shawn Henry

Semantic Kernel Agent Framework Reaches Release Candidate 1 We're excited to announce that with the release of Semantic Kernel 1.40 (.NET) and 1.22.0 (Python), we're elevating the Semantic Kernel Agent Framework to Release Candidate 1. This marks a significant milestone in our journey toward providing a robust, versatile framework for building AI ...

Semantic KernelAnnouncements
Feb 24, 2025
Post comments count0
Post likes count1

Compatibility of PostgreSQL Connector with AWS and GCP

Dmytro Struk
Dmytro Struk

As AI-driven applications continue to evolve, the need for efficient vector-based search capabilities is greater than ever. Microsoft Semantic Kernel makes it easy to integrate these capabilities with PostgreSQL databases using the connector. Whether you're leveraging cloud-hosted PostgreSQL instances on Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud, this c...

Semantic KernelAnnouncement
Feb 24, 2025
Post comments count1
Post likes count0

Hybrid Model Orchestration

Sergey Menshykh
Sergey Menshykh

Hybrid model orchestration is a powerful technique that AI applications can use to intelligently select and switch between multiple models based on various criteria, all while being transparent to the calling code. This technique not only allows for model selection based on factors such as the prompt's input token size and each model's min/max toke...

Semantic KernelSamples.NET
Feb 20, 2025
Post comments count0
Post likes count1

Guest Blog: Revolutionizing AI Workflows: Multi-Agent Group Chat with Copilot Agent Plugins in Microsoft Semantic Kernel

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey Fabian Williams
Sophia,
Fabian

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...

Semantic KernelGuest Blog
Feb 19, 2025
Post comments count0
Post likes count6

AI Agents for Beginners Course: 10 Lessons teaching you how to start building AI Agents

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey
Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey

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...

Semantic Kernel
Feb 18, 2025
Post comments count3
Post likes count3

Using OpenAI’s o3-mini Reasoning Model in Semantic Kernel

Roger Barreto
Roger Barreto

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...

Semantic KernelAnnouncementsAnnouncement
Feb 10, 2025
Post comments count1
Post likes count1

Guest Blog: Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Portfolio Manager: A Multi-Agent System with Microsoft Semantic Kernel and Azure OpenAI

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey Akshay Kokane
Sophia,
Akshay

Today the Semantic Kernel team is excited to welcome back a guest author, Akshay Kokane to share his recent Medium article using Semantic Kernel and Azure OpenAI, showcasing a step-by-step guide to building a Portfolio Manager. We’ll turn it over to him to dive into his work below. In my previous blog, we went over how Semantic Kernel can be u...

Guest Blog
Feb 6, 2025
Post comments count0
Post likes count0

Customer Case Study: How preezie’s AI shopping assistant is reshaping Blue Bungalow’s online store

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey Danny Wang Melina Nheng
Sophia,
Danny,
Melina

Introduction Blue Bungalow, one of Australia’s leading fashion retailers, faced a common challenge in eCommerce—how to create a more engaging, seamless, and personalised shopping experience for customers online. They wanted to implement AI-powered assistance to provide personalised product recommendations, accurate sizing guidance, product compari...

Customer Story
Feb 5, 2025
Post comments count1
Post likes count1

Guest Blog: Let your Copilot Declarative Agent think deep with DeepSeek-R1

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey Mahmoud Hassan
Sophia,
Mahmoud

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...

Semantic Kernel
Feb 4, 2025
Post comments count0
Post likes count2

Using Azure OpenAI Chat Completion with data source and Function Calling

Dmytro Struk
Dmytro Struk

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...

Semantic Kernel