Semantic Kernel

The latest news from the Semantic Kernel team for developers

Say hello to Semantic Kernel V1.0.1

December 19, 2023 Dec 19, 2023 12/19/23
Matthew Bolanos
The Semantic Kernel team is proud to announce that we have published V1.0.1 of Semantic Kernel for C#. With V1, C# developers now have a solid foundation to build AI agents for their AI powered applications. We are extremely thankful to the many people who tested our release candidates over the past two weeks. The many bug reports and ...

Migrating from the Sequential and Stepwise planners to the new Handlebars and Stepwise planner

December 9, 2023 Dec 9, 2023 12/9/23
Matthew Bolanos
As part of our Ignite release, we shipped the new gen-4 and gen-5 planners developed by the Semantic Kernel team. These new planners can handle many more functions (2-3X more), leverage more complex logic (e.g., loops, conditionals, and complex objects), all while using fewer tokens. Because of just how much better these new planners are, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

November 13, 2023 Nov 13, 2023 11/13/23
authorsAnaiya 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 (...