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January 2025

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What is Microsoft.Extensions.AI Library and Will It Replace Semantic Kernel?

Microsoft has published new AI library (well, technically it is just LLM library, but nowadays AI = LLM) in preview. This library is called Microsoft.Extensions.AI. With this library, developers can abstract away what LLM service (like OpenAI) they are using and easily leverage basic chat functionality from LLM. Sounds a lot like Semantic Kernel, doesn’t it? So what is the difference and when you should use this library …