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Today we’re excited to welcome Vic Perdana, as a guest author on the Semantic Kernel blog today to cover his work on a SemantiClip: A Practical Guide to Building Your Own AI Agent with Semantic Kernel. We’ll turn it over to Vic to dive in further. Everywhere you look lately, the buzz is about AI agents. But cutting through the noise—what doe...

Introduction In October 2024 Microsoft replaced a legacy rule‑based chat bot on Microsoft Store with Microsoft Store Assistant, powered by Azure Open AI, Semantic Kernel, and real‑time page context. The transformation changed a scripted, button-driven experience into a conversation that comprehends the entire public Microsoft portfolio, includin...

Today we're excited to feature a returning guest author, Akshay Kokane to share his recent Medium article on Building an AI App That Can Browse the Internet Using Microsoft’s Playwright MCP Server & Semantic Kernel. We’ll turn it over to him to dive in! MCP! It’s the new buzzword in the AI world. So, I thought — why not be a part of this buz...

Google's Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol is designed to enable seamless interoperability among diverse AI agents. Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel (SK), an open-source platform for orchestrating intelligent agent interactions, is now being integrated into the A2A ecosystem. In this blog, we demonstrate how Semantic Kernel agents can easily function as an ...

We are excited to announce that Semantic Kernel (SK) now has first-class support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — a standard created by Anthropic to enable models, tools, and agents to share context and capabilities seamlessly. With this release, SK can act as both an MCP host (client) and an MCP server, and you can leverage these capabili...

Announcing the Neon Serverless Postgres Connector for Microsoft Semantic Kernel We’re excited to introduce the Neon Serverless Postgres Connector for Microsoft Semantic Kernel, enabling developers to seamlessly integrate Neon’s serverless Postgres capabilities with AI-driven vector search and retrieval workflows. By leveraging the pgvector extensi...

Today we'd like to welcome back a team of internal Microsoft employees for part 2 of their guest blog series focused on Bridging Business and Technology: Transforming Natural Language Queries into SQL with Semantic Kernel. We'll turn it over to our authors - Samer El Housseini, Riccardo Chiodaroli, Daniel Labbe, Fabrizio Ruocco and Angel Sevillano ...

Revolutionize Business Automation with AI: A Guide to Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel Process Framework Step-by-Step guide on creating your first process with AI Microsoft’s AI Framework, Semantic Kernel, is an easy-to-use C#, Java, and Python-based AI framework that helps you quickly build AI solutions or integrate AI capabilities into your existi...

Today we’re thrilled to announce support for Hybrid search with Semantic Kernel Vector Stores for .NET. What is Hybrid Search? Hybrid search performs two parallel searches on a vector database.  The union of the results of these two searches are then returned to callers with a combined rank, based on the rankings from each of the constituent sear...

Today we're excited to welcome Arafat Tehsin, who’s a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for AI. back as a guest author on the Semantic Kernel blog today to cover his work on a Comprehensive Guide to Agentic AI with Semantic Kernel. We'll turn it over to Arafat to dive in further. The world of AI is evolving rapidly and just two weeks ba...