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GUEST POST – EmbedElite Meets Semantic Kernel: A Game-changer for Context Retrieval

September 1, 2023 Sep 1, 2023 09/1/23
Lukas Schmyrczyk
Introduction We are EmbedElite, proud winners of the recent Semantic Kernel Plugins Hackathon. A common challenge for enterprises is the extensive effort in gathering and preparing the necessary context which isn't inherent to LLMs. Recognizing this, we at EmbedElite, set out on a mission to democratize this process, making context retrieval ...

Track Your Token Usage and Costs with Semantic Kernel

August 30, 2023 Aug 30, 2023 08/30/23
Nilesh Acharya
(image) This is a follow up blog post to Unlock the Power of Telemetry in Semantic Kernel SDK. We are excited to share we have added logging and metering for prompt, completion, and total tokens for each request to Azure OpenAI/Open AI using Semantic Kernel. This feature will help you monitor and optimize your API usage and costs, as well ...

GUEST POST: Getting Started with Semantic Kernel for LangChain users

August 28, 2023 Aug 28, 2023 08/28/23
Gopi Kumar
Large language models such as GPT4 and chatGPT have created a revolution in the way people build innovative new applications and experiences. I describe how I got started with building LLM applications and point to some resources I created in this process that I hope will help in your own exploration into this exciting area of software ...

Using Planners in the SK Java Kernel

August 21, 2023 Aug 21, 2023 08/21/23
Soham Dasgupta
Dynamic AI planners are a useful tool when you are not sure what type of asks are going to come in from your users.  Let's learn how you can use planners in the Java kernel.  In my previous blog on using the Java kernel, on Step #5 I explained how to use multiple Plugins and their Functions one after another. In this post, I will show you...

GUEST POST: Semantic Kernel and Weaviate: Orchestrating interactions around LLMs with long-term memory

August 16, 2023 Aug 16, 2023 08/16/23
Zain Hasan
The Emerging LLM Stack In a recent interview, the co-founder of Cohere stated - “For the first time in the history of our planet, we have machines that we’ve created that can use our language.” A bold statement indeed, but it couldn’t be more accurate and we’ve all witnessed the incredible power of said machines. It would be an ...

Semantic Kernel Planners: Stepwise Planner

August 15, 2023 Aug 15, 2023 08/15/23
authorsNilesh Acharya, Lee Miller
(image) Welcome to the third and final blog post in this series about Semantic Kernel Planners. In the previous blogs we touched on discussed the action planner and sequential planner. In this blog we will discuss Semantic Kernal's latest generation of planner called Stepwise Planner. The Stepwise Planner is a powerful planning object ...

How To Use Microsoft Fabric with Semantic Kernel

August 14, 2023 Aug 14, 2023 08/14/23
John Maeda
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 ...

AI tooling for Java developers with SK

August 10, 2023 Aug 10, 2023 08/10/23
Soham Dasgupta
Every system needs to be able to add AI to its workflow to empower the users to complete their task much faster.  The Semantic Kernel team and community have been working hard to create a Java based kernel to support Java developers to unleash AI into their apps.  I will walk you through this journey below. We will review the following ...