Visual Studio Magazine

Semantic Kernel AI SDK Advances to GA in Java and Python

Microsoft yesterday announced the general availability of Semantic Kernel for Python and Java, advancing the open source AI integration SDK that is a key component of the company's Copilot stack of AI ...
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 ...
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 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Semantic Kernel + AutoGen = Open-Source 'Microsoft Agent Framework'

With recent advances in agentic AI, Microsoft is revamping its related dev tooling, combining the capabilities of the discrete properties Semantic Kernel and AutoGen to offer the new open-source ...