Semantic Kernel

Semantic Kernel’s Ignite release: Beta8 for the .NET SDK

November 16, 2023 Nov 16, 2023 11/16/23

Matthew Bolanos

Yesterday’s and today’s  Ignite sessions have been jam packed with updates. From new AI infrastructure to the new Copilot Studio, Microsoft has had a lot to share! At the center of it all, however, is still AI Orchestration: the layer that uses AI to retrieve data, call functions, and ultimately do real work. That’s where Semantic ...

OpenAI Assistants: The power of templated assistant instructions

November 14, 2023 Nov 14, 2023 11/14/23

Matthew Bolanos

Another day, another update from the Semantic Kernel team on OpenAI Assistants! For this article, we wanted to dive into assistant instructions, the key element in the Assistant API that allows you to give assistants their own persona. With the existing OpenAI API, instructions are typically static. You define them once for an assistant, ...

Introducing v1.0.0 Beta6 for the .NET Semantic Kernel SDK

November 13, 2023 Nov 13, 2023 11/13/23

Matthew Bolanos

The Semantic Kernel team continues to make improvements to our beta release of the .NET library. Our sixth Beta release is the most jam packed one so far, so we wanted to take the opportunity to share everything new inside of it. As a reminder, if you want visibility into our full plans for v1 of Semantic Kernel, please check out this blog ...

Explore .NET and AI Integration at .NET Conf 2023 with Semantic Kernel

November 13, 2023 Nov 13, 2023 11/13/23

Evan Chaki

Join us this November 14-16 for the .NET Conf 2023, an event focused on knowledge sharing and the latest in .NET development.  The conference will feature non-stop sessions over three days, ensuring that no matter where you are in the world, there’s something for you to tune into. We understand the value of direct interaction and have ...

Building AI Applications with Microsoft Semantic Kernel and MongoDB Atlas Vector Search

November 13, 2023 Nov 13, 2023 11/13/23

Anaiya Raisinghani, Prakul Agarwal, Tim Kelly

As part of this guest blogpost by the MongoDB Atlas Vector Search team, we are excited to announce native support for MongoDB Atlas Vector Search in Microsoft Semantic Kernel. With this integration, users can bring the power of LLMs (large language models) to their proprietary data securely, and build generative AI applications using RAG (...

OpenAI Assistants: a first look into using OpenAI Assistants with Semantic Kernel

November 9, 2023 Nov 9, 2023 11/9/23

Matthew Bolanos

(image) On Monday, we shared that the future of Semantic Kernel will leverage OpenAI Assistants so you can take advantage of the ease-of-use they provide in creating agents and copilots. In this blog post, we wanted to pick up where we left off and share an incremental update on our current progress while also diving into some of the ...

Unveiling the Next Steps in AI Productivity: Plugins, Planners, and Personas at Microsoft Ignite

November 9, 2023 Nov 9, 2023 11/9/23

Evan Chaki

As the Microsoft Ignite event approaches on November 16th, we are excited to invite you to join us for a live session at the Seattle Convention Center Summit. This gathering is a special opportunity for business leaders and AI enthusiasts to gain insight into the advancements of Semantic Kernel, particularly in the realms of Plugins, Planners...

OpenAI Assistants: the future of Semantic Kernel

November 6, 2023 Nov 6, 2023 11/6/23

Matthew Bolanos

During the OpenAI event earlier today, OpenAI announced the launch of GPTs and the assistants API, the new and improved ways of creating agents on top of their chat completion models. With assistants, much of the heavy lifting required to build agents has been stripped away… This ultimately means it’ll be faster, and ...

AutoGen Agents Meet Semantic Kernel

November 2, 2023 Nov 2, 2023 11/2/23

John Maeda

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...

What to expect from v1 and beyond for Semantic Kernel.

November 1, 2023 Nov 1, 2023 11/1/23

Matthew Bolanos

(image) In a previous article, we announced the beta launch of Semantic Kernel v1. In that article, we shared the initial breaking changes we made for v1: 1) renaming skills to plugins, 2) making Semantic Kernel AI service agnostic while still supporting first class support for Azure OpenAI and OpenAI, and 3) consolidating our implementation...