Semantic Kernel

Using Handlebars Planner in Semantic Kernel

April 11, 2024 Apr 11, 2024 04/11/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey, Teresa Hoang

We are excited to dive into the Handlebars Planner, a powerful tool for creating customized plans. This comprehensive guide will provide you with a thorough understanding on how to create your own plans using the Handlebars Planner and explain some of the planner options you can customize, such as providing additional information when ...

Customer Case Study: Cognizant & Microsoft Collaborate to Power Healthcare with Generative AI

April 9, 2024 Apr 9, 2024 04/9/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey

Cognizant and Microsoft Collaborate to Power the Future of Healthcare Administration with Generative AI Check out the entire Cognizant customer story here discussing how they use Microsoft and Semantic Kernel. Cognizant and Microsoft are collaborating to infuse generative AI into healthcare administration. This new, groundbreaking ...

Customer Case Study: DataStax and Semantic Kernel

April 4, 2024 Apr 4, 2024 04/4/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey, Greg Stachnick

Today we’ll dive into a customer case study from Datastax and their recent press release and announcement on the DataStax and Microsoft collaboration on RAG capabilities on DataStax Astra DB Thanks again to the DataStax team for their amazing partnership! Microsoft and DataStax Simplify Building AI Agents with Legacy Apps and Data In ...

Making Plans with Semantic Kernel: Setting Up & Authentication

April 2, 2024 Apr 2, 2024 04/2/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey, José Luis Latorre Millás

Hello all, today we’re featuring a guest author on our Semantic Kernel blog, José Luis Latorre Millás, an MVP for Microsoft focused on AI. We will turn it over to Jose to dive into Making Plans with Semantic Kernel - Setting Up & Authentication. Extending the Reach of the Model Plugins serve as powerful tools that enable us to...

Enhanced templating in Semantic Kernel for Python

April 1, 2024 Apr 1, 2024 04/1/24

Eduard van Valkenburg, Evan Mattson

Hello to all Python enthusiasts working with Semantic Kernel! We are very happy to share some of the latest work we have been doing, namely we introduced not one but two new options for templates: Handlebars and Jinja2. And we also made some updates to the 'semantic-kernel' (default) template as well! This is all now available as of package ...

Learning Paths for Semantic Kernel

March 28, 2024 Mar 28, 2024 03/28/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey

We are excited to highlight new learning content released focused on Semantic Kernel. .NET Conf Student Zone - Explore AI On the .NET Conf Student Zone you can learn in a beginner-friendly virtual event where you’ll learn how to build projects using C# and .NET. In the Explore AI dedicated section, shown below, you can learn ...

Customer Case Study: Accenture and Semantic Kernel

March 26, 2024 Mar 26, 2024 03/26/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey

Below we've provided a brief overview of the Customer Story of Accenture. Check out the entire Accenture Customer Story featured here: Accenture evolves its data analytics with Microsoft Fabric to calibrate the new "experience office" Accenture created DEX, an AI-enhanced experience measurement framework. Leveraging Microsoft Fabric, ...

Customer Case Study: Visma Spcs Improves Customer Experience with Semantic Kernel

March 25, 2024 Mar 25, 2024 03/25/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey, Jimmy Stridh

Today we will dive into a customer case study. Thanks to the Visma team on their amazing partnership! Visma Spcs, is a leading software company providing modern services to simplify accounting, HR, payroll, and more, and they've successfully integrated AI and Semantic Kernel to revolutionize their customer experience. With hundreds of ...

Using Semantic Kernel with Dependency Injection

March 22, 2024 Mar 22, 2024 03/22/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey, Gil LaHaye

Semantic Kernel fully supports dependency injection. After receiving many questions from the community as to how to best use dependency injection with Semantic Kernel, the team created an app to illustrate some effective patterns.  Dependency injection is a technique in which an object receives other objects that it requires rather than ...

Image to Text with Semantic Kernel and HuggingFace

March 21, 2024 Mar 21, 2024 03/21/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey, Roger Barreto

We are thrilled to introduce a new feature within Semantic Kernel that promises to improve AI capabilities: Image to Text modality service abstraction, with a new HuggingFace Service implementation using this capability. A Glimpse into the Demonstration In the video below, we’ll walk through a compelling demonstration of a simple ...