Advanced Function Calling and Multi-Agent Systems with Small Language Models in Foundry Local In our previous exploration of function calling with Small Language Models, we demonstrated how to enab...

It was Monday morning again. Meetings filled the calendar. Ideas flowed quickly. Everyone agreed on what needed to be done. You took notes. You asked questions. You left the room feeling confident. ...

Most AI systems don’t fail in the lab. They fail the moment production touches them. I’m Hazem Ali — Microsoft AI MVP, Principal AI & ML Engineer / Architect, and Founder & CEO of Skytells. With ...

The OSS AI Summit is an interactive online event designed to showcase how open-source AI frameworks empower developers to build, innovate, and scale faster. This first event spotlights LangChain, t...

As Microsoft steps into the Ignite 2025 era of “AI-first everything” across Azure, Foundry, and cloud-native workloads, .NET quietly got its own big upgrade: .NET 10, a new long-term support (LTS) re...

Microsoft’s announcements at Ignite 2025 hit right at this point. With the evolution of Azure AI Foundry into Microsoft Foundry, and the launch of Foundry Agent Service, we now have a platform desi...

In our previous article on running Phi-4 locally, we built a web-enhanced assistant that could search the internet and provide informed answers. Here's what that implementation looked like: def we...

In standard web development, a 'success' is a 200 OK status. In Generative AI, a 200 OK can still contain a hallucination, a refusal to answer, or a gibberish output. Transparency is not a luxury in ...

In our previous post, we explored how Phi-4 represents a new frontier in AI efficiency that delivers performance comparable to models 5x its size while being small enough to run on your laptop. Today...