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...

In Part 1 of this series, we tackled the critical challenge of protecting the LLM itself from malicious inputs. We implemented three essential security layers using Azure AI services: harmful content...

🎥 Watch the full PyCon AU 2025 talk here When you work with human-entered data (registrations, surveys, customer forms, you name it!) you soon discover that people are very creative typists. ...

Personal Background My name is Peace Silly. I studied French and Spanish at the University of Oxford, where I developed a strong interest in how language is structured and interpreted. That curiosi...

I was reading an article over the weekend about WotNot, an AI chatbot startup that left 346,000 files completely exposed in an unsecured cloud storage bucket—passports, medical records, sensitive cus...

This post isn't just about the Student Support Agent (SSA) I built, which earned me a Distinction. It's about how Microsoft's tools made it possible to go from a rough concept to a robust pilot, prov...

AI agents are becoming the backbone of modern applications, from personal assistants to autonomous research bots. If you're a student developer curious about building intelligent, goal-driven agents,...