Monday, April 7, 2025

Semantic Kernel

Semantic Kernel is designed to help developers build AI applications by providing a set of tools and libraries that facilitate the integration of large language models (LLMs) into their applications. 

It supports various AI tasks such as text generation, understanding, and transformation. Features are listed as below:

Extensibility: Developers can extend the framework to add custom functionalities or integrate additional AI models.

Interoperability: Semantic Kernel can work with different AI models and services, making it versatile for various applications.

Ease of Use: The framework provides a user-friendly API that simplifies the process of integrating AI capabilities into applications.

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Microsoft 50

 


Today, Gates says that the 50th anniversary of Microsoft is “bittersweet,” and that it feels like yesterday when he and Allen “hunched over the PDP-10 in Harvard’s computer lab, writing the code that would become the first product of our new company.” That code, he says, remains “the coolest code I’ve ever written to this day …. I still get a kick out of seeing it, even all these years later.”


Bill Gates writes on his Gates Notes website. “In 1975, Paul Allen and I created Microsoft because we believed in our vision of a computer on every desk and in every home. Five decades later, Microsoft continues to innovate new ways to make life easier and work more productive. Making it 50 years is a huge accomplishment, and we couldn’t have done it without incredible leaders like Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella, along with the many people who have worked at Microsoft over the years.”