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Introduction to Semantic Kernel

Introduction to Developing Azure AI Solutions In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a cornerstone for innovation. Azure AI offers a robust suite of tools and services that empower developers to build intelligent applications. From natural language processing (NLP) to computer vision, Azure AI provides the building blocks to create solutions that can understand, interpret, and respond to human inputs in a meaningful way. While Microsoft has several Copilot offerings for different use cases, ranging from an AI assistant in Azure, Copilot in M365 or web and mobile, there are still valid use cases for developing your own custom Copilot.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Sunday, September 15, 2024

Festive Tech Calendar - Azure AI - OCR on Steroids

Hugo Azure Static Storage Sites Welcome to this year’s Festive Tech Calendar!! Hi everyone, welcome to my contribution to this year’s Festive Tech Calendar once more. This will be the fourth year, and I still love the concept of bringing some (Azure) joy to you/your family this season. If you ask me what the biggest news in tech was this year, especially within the Microsoft ecosystem, it’s Azure AI. Shouldn’t be surprising to most of you who know me and my role within Microsoft as Technical Trainer - providing Azure workshops every week to our top customers and partners across the globe - we also integrated (A lot :)) of AI focus early in the year.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Saturday, December 23, 2023

Build an Azure AI chatbot using your own data from blob storage

You must have lived under a rock if you didn’t hear about how important Azure AI is for Microsoft and its partner and customer ecosystem. Thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI), companies will be more innovative, employees will be more productive. While I honestly was a bit hesitant at first myself - knowing a big part of my job is providing training, and seeing what AI can do here in terms of content creation, video creation and alike, yes the trainer role will definitely (has to) change over the next coming months - once I started digging into its capabilities more, I started to see the AI engine potential.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Monday, July 17, 2023