Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Pushes Open Source 'Semantic Kernel' for AI LLM-Backed Apps

Since recently introducing the open source Semantic Kernel to help developers use AI large language models (LLMs) in their apps, Microsoft has been busy improving it, publishing new guidance on how to ...
VentureBeat

Headless vs. native semantic layer: The architectural key to unlocking 90%+ text-to-SQL accuracy

Every data engineering team right now is being asked the same question: "How do we build a chatbot that talks to our data?" The prototypes are deceptively simple. A developer connects GPT-5.1 to a ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Semantic Kernel (AI LLM Integration) Gets VS Code Tools, Python Support

Microsoft has been busy updating its recently open sourced internal incubation project called Semantic Kernel, an SDK that lets developers mix conventional programming languages with the latest in ...
InfoWorld

What’s next for Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel

At the heart of Microsoft’s AI application development strategy is Semantic Kernel, an open source set of tools for managing and orchestrating AI prompts. Since its launch as a way to simplify ...
VentureBeat

Table-augmented generation shows promise for complex dataset querying, outperforms text-to-SQL

AI has transformed the way companies work and interact with data. A few years ago, teams had to write SQL queries and code to extract useful information from large swathes of data. Today, all they ...