Semantic Kernel

Release Candidate 1 for the Semantic Kernel .NET SDK is now live.

December 5, 2023 Dec 5, 2023 12/5/23

Matthew Bolanos

Semantic Kernel is now at RC3. The following top issues are being tracked: To see the full list of remaining items for V1.0.0, please refer to our V1 burndown table. Since the interface is getting extremely close to its final v1.0.0 structure, we’re excited to release v1.0.0 RC1 of the .NET Semantic Kernel SDK. During the next ...

Come hack with us on Semantic Kernel v1.0!

November 29, 2023 Nov 29, 2023 11/29/23

Alex Chao

(image) v1.0 is right around the corner! What better way to kick off the holiday season than with an AI hackathon! We're approaching a big milestone for the Semantic Kernel with the upcoming release of the 1.0 SDK. To get the community familiar with the changes that are coming and to get as much feedback as possible, we're launching ...

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 ...