John Maeda

American technologist and product experience leader. Currently VP of design and artificial intelligence at Microsoft. Author of five books including a gentle intro to AI/ML "How to Speak Machine (Penguin)" and the "Laws of Simplicity (MIT Press)." Represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC and the Cartier Foundation, Paris.

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AutoGen Agents Meet Semantic Kernel

November 2nd, 2023
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...

How To Use Microsoft Fabric with Semantic Kernel

August 14th, 2023
For lovers of Microsoft Fabric as their data tool of choice, there's a terrific post up on the Fabric blog on how to get started using Semantic Kernel with your "Lakehouse" of choice. Semantic Kernel is used for the "AI Orchestration" layer in the Copilot Stack as featured at Build 2023. (image) Kinfey Lo details how to use Azure Blob ...

Semantic Kernel Personas: An Interview with SK Team Member Brian Krabach

July 20th, 2023
We interviewed SK team member Brian Krabach on the emerging concept of "Personas." The idea was born from a need to support longer chat interactions, as most models forget the early parts of conversations as they progress. What did I say again? <smile> In SK Personas, a unique concept that's been developed is "synthetic memories" — ...

Semantic Kernel Roadmap: Fall Release Preview

July 7th, 2023
(image) Evan Chaki (L) and John Maeda (R) previewing the third official release of Semantic Kernel    The Semantic Kernel team is thrilled to present the fall 2023 release plan for Semantic Kernel. Our focus is on delivering key developments and enhancements across three pillars: open source and trustworthiness, reliability...

Enhancing AI Models with Chroma: A Conversation with CEO Jeff Huber

July 6th, 2023
To use Chroma with Semantic Kernel, visit the sample notebook on the Semantic Kernel GitHub repo. And if you like the repo, please give it a star! In this interview with Jeff Huber, CEO and co-founder of Chroma, a leading AI-native vector database, Jeff discusses how Chroma bridges the gap between AI models and production by leveraging ...

Revolutionizing AI Search with Weaviate: An Interview with CEO Bob van Luijt

July 4th, 2023
To use Weaviate with Semantic Kernel, visit the sample notebook on the Semantic Kernel GitHub repo. And if you like the repo, please give it a star! In this interview, Bob van Luijt, CEO and co-founder of Weaviate, shares his journey from starting an internet business at a young age to co-founding Weaviate. Bob discusses the ...

Semantic Kernel + Qdrant = Persistent Memories Powered By Open Source

April 26th, 2023
(image) (image) Interview with Qdrant CEO and co-founder Andre Zayarni Semantic Kernel now works seamlessly with the open-source vector database Qdrant — just launch an instance of Qdrant on Azure with one click and you're good to go. You can learn more about Qdrant's history in this interview with the CEO and co-founder, Andre Zayarni...

Money Talks: Chatting With Your Favorite 10-K

April 18th, 2023
(image) Adam Hurwitz recently shared a popular blog post about using Semantic Kernel to chat with the Microsoft 10-K, which can be extended to any other 10-K document that you like. As a seasoned pro in the space of Financial Services applications, Adam's hands-on experience with LLM AI is indicative of how each industry vertical is on the...

Semantic Kernel Now Available In Python Flavor

April 17th, 2023
Just a few weeks ago we came out with Semantic Kernel in C# and with an experimental branch for Python. Today we're happy to announce that based upon community feedback, we have an official Python release now available on GitHub. You know what that means ... and you're good to go! 🎉🎉🎉 Why Release Semantic Kernel In Python? Python...

How Haiyan Zhang Went from Software Engineer to AI Game Design Innovator

April 11th, 2023
(image) "We're not just creating AI for AI's sake, but we're creating AI that serves a purpose, that solves a problem, that empowers people, that respects people." —Haiyan Zhang Haiyan Zhang is a creative technologist, designer, and maker who has worked on projects ranging from wearable devices for people with Parkinson's to immersive ...