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February 2024

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Semantic Kernel

Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel is currently a focal point in the Microsoft AI landscape. The Semantic Kernel (referred to as SK) serves as an SDK enabling the development of applications utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs). SK facilitates seamless integration of OpenAI or Azure OpenAI into applications, empowering developers to construct AI pipelines capable of executing multiple LLM calls, triggering actions, and executing custom code based on LLM responses. However, the reality …

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Develop Teams Bot with Visual Studio

Microsoft has provided tools to develop Teams Bot for a long time. I think the first tools were released around 2016(?). The first toolset included quite a bit of manual labor to get things done and working, but as of 2024 things have changed quite a bit. Now you can build, test, deploy and publish bots directly from Visual Studio (or code if you run into authentication troubles like I …