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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

As we move into the first half of 2025, I'm excited to share our ambitious roadmap that we hope will enable you to build even more sophisticated AI applications with Semantic Kernel. Agent Framework 1.0 By the end of Q1 2025, the SK Agent Framework will transition from preview to general availability (GA). This milestone marks a commitmen...

DeepSeek recently awed the AI community by open sourcing two new state-of-the-art models, the DeepSeek-V3 and a reasoning model, the DeepSeek-R1, that not only claim to be op-par with the most capable models from OpenAI but are also extremely cost-effective. We'd like to highlight the recent announcement from the Azure AI Foundry team highlighting ...

Today we’re featuring a guest author, Ricardo Niepel, who’s a Senior Technical Specialist at Microsoft. He’s written an article we’re sharing below; we’ll turn it over to Ricardo to share more! If “Creative Writing Assistant” sounds familiar, it might be because we've previously released a similar multi-agent application built in Python during o...

Leap Forward with Modern AI using Microsoft 365 Agents SDK and Semantic Kernel Today we’re featuring a guest author, Arafat Tehsin, who’s a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for AI. He’s written an article we’re sharing below, focused on how to Leap Forward with Modern AI using Microsoft 365 Agents SDK and Semantic Kernel. We’ll turn ...

The Journey to Multi-Agent Innovation At ServiceNow, we embarked on an ambitious journey to redefine how AI systems collaborate in enterprise environments. Through our partnership with Microsoft, we set out to create something beyond traditional integration – a true multi-agent system across platform that could work effectively alongside human t...