Semantic Kernel

Updates on Ways to Engage with the Semantic Kernel Team

March 12, 2024 Mar 12, 2024 03/12/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey

We have some updates on how to engage with the core Semantic Kernel team! If you are part of the Semantic Kernel community, you have two options to meet with us virtually: community office hours and kernel development syncs. Both are held on Wednesday with different options to make it easy for folks around the world to join. The original ...

Enhanced Automation in Python: Auto Tool Calling for OpenAI Models in the Semantic Kernel SDK

March 11, 2024 Mar 11, 2024 03/11/24

Evan Mattson, Eduard van Valkenburg

Greetings, Semantic Kernel Python developers and enthusiasts! We're happy to share a significant update to the Semantic Kernel Python SDK now available in 0.9.1b1 -- a leap towards more efficient and streamlined OpenAI model integration. Your feedback, the need to align with the .NET Semantic Kernel SDK, and our commitment to enhancing ...

Navigating the Transition: Semantic Kernel .NET V1 Migration Guide

March 7, 2024 Mar 7, 2024 03/7/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey

On Monday we introduced the Python Beta and on Tuesday we announced the Java Release Candidate. Today we’ll dive into Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel migration plan detailing the changes needed to get to V1+ of the .NET version of Semantic Kernel. Microsoft's Semantic Kernel offers powerful capabilities for natural language ...

Architecting AI Apps with Semantic Kernel

March 6, 2024 Mar 6, 2024 03/6/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey, Veronica Ward

With Semantic Kernel, you can easily build agents that can call your existing code. This power lets you automate your business processes with models from OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Hugging Face, and more! We often get asked though, “How do I architect my solution?” and “How does it actually work?” In this blog post, we’ll break apart...

Java 1.0 Release Candidate for Semantic Kernel now available

March 5, 2024 Mar 5, 2024 03/5/24

Martijn Verburg

On the 19th of July 2023, we announced the first public alpha release of the Microsoft Semantic Kernel for Java. Today, we are thrilled to announce 1.0.0-rc2 as our first public Release Candidate of the Microsoft Semantic Kernel for Java! This Java library opens new developer possibilities by seamlessly integrating AI services like OpenAI and...

Now in Beta: Explore the Enhanced Python SDK for Semantic Kernel

March 4, 2024 Mar 4, 2024 03/4/24

Evan Mattson, Eduard van Valkenburg

The Semantic Kernel team is excited to announce we are on the brink of releasing v1.0.0 of our Python SDK. In our journey towards this significant milestone, the latest beta release (0.9.0b1) has brought essential breaking changes, aligning our Python SDK's capabilities with those of our .NET SDK. Our commitment to Pythonic best practices ...

Spring 2024 roadmap for Semantic Kernel

February 12, 2024 Feb 12, 2024 02/12/24

Matthew Bolanos

Now that it's February, we wanted to share what we had planned for Semantic Kernel from now until Microsoft Build. Most of our next immediate investments fall into one of three buckets: V1.0 parity across all our languages, additional connectors, and last but not least, agents. If you want a deep dive into our plans, watch our Spring 2024 ...

Road to v1.0 for the Python Semantic Kernel SDK

January 23, 2024 Jan 23, 2024 01/23/24

Matthew Bolanos

Want to contribute to the Python SDK? Come join the Python Development Syncs every other Wednesday at 9 AM PST. Click here to download the calendar invite. Last year, we finished shipping the v1.0.1 version of the .NET Semantic Kernel SDK. As part of this move, we made the SDK much easier to use while also increasing its power. We now have ...

MicroAgents: Exploring Agentic Architecture with Microservices

January 22, 2024 Jan 22, 2024 01/22/24

Chris Rickman, Alex Chao

Throughout our time building Semantic Kernel and working with customers, we've introduced agents and have just started to explore the potential of autonomous AI agents. While the community is in the midst of exploring various architectures for these agents, one source we can draw inspiration from is the microservice architecture. Consider ...

GUEST POST: How to build a Kernel Memory connector and use Elasticsearch as vector database

January 8, 2024 Jan 8, 2024 01/8/24

Alessandro Federici

This article will help readers to create their own connectors for Kernel Memory. It will introduce fundamental concepts of Kernel Memory and Elasticsearch and will show some practical use cases of how to use the interface IMemoryDb. The complete source code for the connector is located in the GitHub repository FreeMindLabs.KernelMemory....