As Azure AI Foundry adoption grows, developers are increasingly faced with an important architectural decision: The answer depends on where your agent lives and how you want to manage it. Although both SDKs are part of the Azure AI ecosystem, they solve different problems. Understanding the distinction can save significant development effort and help you […]
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There are numerous ways to optimize model performance. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Prompt Engineering are 2 relevant strategies, but also consider fine-tuning a model. Fine-tuning influences the model with additional examples that reflect specific requirements. These examples adjust the pretrained internal weights so that it produces responses consistent with patterns in the training data. […]
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The Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol is a method for utilizing AI Agents which are not cohosted together. For example, you have AI Agent X located at an HTTPS address #1 and AI Agent Y hosted at HTTPS address #2 and AI Agent Z that runs from a Chat and needs to utilize X and Y. This […]
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The Microsoft Agent Framework is an open-sourced SDK which combines the Semantic Kernel and AutoGen into a single, highly innovative set of AI capabilities into a single library. AI features like: Unified model connectivity and chat clients for OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, and other leading LLM providers. Multi-agent orchestration, allowing specialized AI agents to […]
Read More →You may have noticed that in my previous articles I used Azure AI Projects client library for Python – version 2.5.0 library. Those articles illustrate how to build AI Agents, MCP Tools, and infer instructions using an LLM. Integrate custom tools into an AI Agent Integrate MCP Tools with AI Agents – Remote MCP server […]
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I have built a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution using the Azure AI Search SDK and Azure OpenAI SDK. There is a lot to know about not only coding, configuring, and managing those components, but how they must be tuned, fed, and optimized are aspects which we are still in a state of learning and […]
Read More →Before learning what I discovered while integrating tools into an AI Agent, I was a bit perplexed regarding how the LLM was able to determine which tool to use and even which tools are available for use. Well, how it works is not a mystery, it is clearly described in the code. In this post […]
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