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...

It all starts in a meeting room. Teams share ideas, debate solutions, and align on goals, but too often, they leave behind chaos instead of clarity—hours of discussion result in lengthy transcripts f...

While the .NET bot is busy exploring the ocean depths, we're here on the surface, ready to dive into what's new across the .NET ecosystem - AI, .NET Aspire, GitHub Copilot, of course .NET 10, and a w...

In Module 08 of the EdgeAI for Beginners course,  Microsoft introduces Foundry Local a toolkit that helps you deploy and test Small Language Models (SLMs) completely offline. In this blog, I’ll share...

We've just wrapped up our live series on Python + AI, a comprehensive nine-part journey diving deep into how to use generative AI models from Python. The series introduced multiple types of models,...

What Are Small Language Models, and Why Should You Care? If you've been following AI development, you can probably recall "bigger is better" being the mantra for years. GPT-3.5 was 175 billion para...