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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...

Announcing New Vector Stores: Faiss, SQL Server, and Pinecone We are thrilled to announce the availability of three new Vector Stores and Vector Store Record Collections: Faiss, SQL Server, and Pinecone. These new connectors will enable you to store and retrieve vector data efficiently, making it easier to work with your own data and data models...

Today on the Semantic Kernel blog we're excited to welcome a group of guest authors from Microsoft. We'll turn it over to Riccardo Chiodaroli, Samer El Housseini, Daniel Labbe and Fabrizio Ruocco to dive into their use cases with Semantic Kernel and Copilot Studio. In today's fast-paced digital economy, intelligent automation is no longer opti...

The time is finally here, Semantic Kernel’s Agent framework is now Generally Available! Available today as part of Semantic Kernel 1.45 (.NET) and 1.27 (Python), the Semantic Kernel Agent framework makes it easier for agents to coordinate and dramatically reduces the code developers need to write to build amazing AI applications. What does Gener...

OpenAI's gpt-4o-audio-preview is a powerful multimodal model that enables audio input and output capabilities, allowing developers to create more natural and accessible AI interactions. This model supports both speech-to-text and text-to-speech functionalities in a single API call through the Chat Completions API, making it suitable for building vo...

This is second MCP related blog post that is part of a series of blog posts that will cover how to use Semantic Kernel (SK) with the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This blog post demonstrates how to build an MCP server using MCP C# SDK and SK, expose SK plugins as MCP tools and call the tools from client side via SK. Here are a few reasons wh...

Three weeks ago we released the Release the Agents! SK Agents Framework RC1 | Semantic Kernel and we’ve been thrilled to see the momentum grow. Thank you to everyone who has shared feedback, filed issues, and started building with agents in Semantic Kernel—we’re seeing more developers try agents than ever before. Today, we’re declaring build 1.43 ...