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 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Ships Production-Ready Agent Framework 1.0 for .NET and Python

Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its open-source Agent Framework, positioning it as the production-ready evolution of the project introduced in October 2025 by combining Semantic Kernel ...
Computer Weekly

PyTorch Foundation lights up welcomes for Helion & Safetensors

The PyTorch Foundation also welcomed Safetensors as a PyTorch Foundation-hosted project. Developed and maintained by Hugging ...
diginomica

PyTorch Foundation adds Helion and Safetensors - and the open AI stack gets a little harder to ignore

Mark Collier briefed me on two updates under embargo at KubeCon Europe 2026 last month: Helion, which opens up GPU kernel ...
InfoWorld

Semantic Kernel: Diving into Microsoft’s AI orchestration SDK

Large language models (LLMs) by themselves are less than meets the eye; the moniker “stochastic parrots” isn’t wrong. Connect LLMs to specific data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and you get ...
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 ...