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Chat Copilot Performance improvements for chat and messaging loading

August 28, 2023 Aug 28, 2023 08/28/23

Nilesh Acharya

We are introducing enhancements to greatly improve performance, reduce cost and data throughput for customers of Chat Copilot. In the current design, partitions are defined by an ID. Overtime as the CosmosDB grows with increased storage we have seen scenarios with extended processing time when customers try to load the list of chats for a ...

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

Nilesh Acharya, Lee Miller

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 based on a ...

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. Kinfey Lo details how to use Azure Blob Storage, ...

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 ...

Use natural language to execute SQL queries

August 4, 2023 Aug 4, 2023 08/4/23

Chris Rickman, Nilesh Acharya

We've heard from many in the community who want to use Semantic Kernel to query their relational database using natural language expressions. We are excited to share this sandbox that enables you explore the capabilities of LLM to generate SQL queries (or SELECT statements): NL2SQL. This has been an area of interest for years (WikiSQL, ...

Unlock the Power of Telemetry in Semantic Kernel SDK

August 3, 2023 Aug 3, 2023 08/3/23

Nilesh Acharya

As more and more customers are becoming reliant on the Semantic Kernel SDK to create sophisticated and powerful applications, we have heard the need for greater transparency into end-to-end traceability and debugging. For example, if you want to know how a specific plugin can impact performance or looking for a way to debug a request this ...

Test your ChatGPT plugins in the updated Chat Copilot

August 2, 2023 Aug 2, 2023 08/2/23

Matthew Bolanos

We've been hard at work improving the Chat Copilot reference application to demonstrate how you can use Semantic Kernel to build a fully featured chat experience. Now that its more feature complete, we're elevating it to its own repo here: github.com/microsoft/chat-copilot. We've also given it its own section on our learn site so we can ...