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Adventures in agentic AI.
Intelligent agents for everyone.
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Empowering #AI Agents with Tools via OpenAPI: A Hands-On Guide with Microsoft Semantic Kernel Agents: devblogs.microsoft.com/semantic-ker...
Empowering AI Agents with Tools via OpenAPI: A Hands-On Guide with Microsoft Semantic Kernel Agents | Semantic Kernel
Today the Semantic Kernel team is happy to welcome back our guest author, Akshay Kokane. We will turn it over to him to dive into his recent Medium article on Semantic Kernel. As we advance towards an...
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January 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Build Your Own #AI Copilot with Justine Cocchi at #VSLive! Las Vegas. Learn how to combine #DotNet Aspire, Semantic Kernel, and #Azure services to create intelligent applications. Master RAG pattern and vector search! Learn more about her session:
Building an AI-Powered .NET Aspire Application -- Visual Studio Live!: Training Conferences and Events for Enterprise Microsoft .NET and Azure Developers
A Microsoft senior program manager will detail the entire process using Semantic Kernel, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure OpenAI Service, .NET Aspire and more.
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January 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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How To: Using the Elasticsearch Vector Store Connector with Semantic Kernel
Discover how to optimize your search capabilities with the Elasticsearch Vector Store Connector and Semantic Kernel. Enhance your data retrieval today! #Elasticsearch #SemanticKernel

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January 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Episode 511 - Semantic Kernel and File Shares by Azure Podcast #AzureKubernetesService #Azure http://azpodcast.azurewebsites.net/post/Episode-511-Semantic-Kernel-and-File-Shares1?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=azureweekly
Episode 511 - Semantic Kernel and File Shares
Cale and Sujit discuss their current projects in Azure as 2024 comes to a close. They also cover a ton of AKS updates.
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January 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Use text embeddings within Semantic Kernel and Ollama by Bart Wullems.

https://bartwullems.blogspot.com/2025/01/use-text-embeddings-within-semantic.html
#ai #ollama #semantickernel #dotnet #csharp
Use text embeddings within Semantic Kernel and Ollama
In a previous post I showed you how to use Semantic Kernel, Ollama and Qdrant to generate and store vector embeddings. Doing this doesn't ma...
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January 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The state of the AI Agents ecosystem: The tech, use cases, and economics.
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The state of the AI Agents ecosystem: The tech, use cases, and economics
In May, we discussed an impending shift in enterprise architectures toward AI Agents. In the six months since that article came out, we have monitored actual agentic deployments across companies, noti...
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January 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Agentic AI will require multi-agent orchestration and data flows.

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Building Multi-Agent Systems
Scaling LLM-based agents to handle complex problems reliably.
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January 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Agentic AI is just getting started and represents significant opportunities for companies of all shapes and sizes. medium.com/point-nine-n...
The Agents Are Coming. Winter Is Not.
Why brute force isn’t everything and why there might be a golden era ahead for AI startups
medium.com
January 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Microsoft’s .NET 9 Release
Microsoft has released .NET 9, packed with over 1,000 performance updates and new AI integration tools. One standout feature is the Semantic Kernel, which simplifies AI service integration for C# developers.
#udev #SoftwareDevelopment #appdevelopment #webdevelopment #AI
December 30, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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Semantic Kernel + Function calling + #HomeAssistant makes it so easy to interact with your home
December 27, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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🚀 New! OllamaApiFacade v1.0.8

🔗 Seamlessly load local LLM/SLM models in VS Code using the "AI Toolkit" with the new Semantic Kernel connector AddAiToolkitVsCode!

💡 Offline-first AI just got easier.

github.com/GregorBiswan...
GitHub - GregorBiswanger/OllamaApiFacade: OllamaApiFacade is an open-source library for running a .NET backend as an Ollama API using Microsoft Semantic Kernel. It supports local language models servi...
OllamaApiFacade is an open-source library for running a .NET backend as an Ollama API using Microsoft Semantic Kernel. It supports local language models services like LmStudio and allows seamless m...
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December 10, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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✈️ A (travel-themed) journey of Semantic Kernel for .NET Developers by Peter de Tender.

https://github.com/petender/geekready2024-semantickernel-demos
#ai #dotnet #semantickernel #csharp #oss #csharpadvent
GitHub - petender/geekready2024-semantickernel-demos
Contribute to petender/geekready2024-semantickernel-demos development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 17, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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This is interesting: MSR's AutoGen agent tooling will be merged with the Semantic Kernel framework in early 2025.

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Microsoft’s Agentic AI Frameworks: AutoGen and Semantic Kernel | Semantic Kernel
Microsoft’s agentic AI frameworks, Semantic Kernel and AutoGen are deeply collaborating to provide the best-in-class agentic developer experience.
devblogs.microsoft.com
November 15, 2024 at 6:41 PM