Jason Haley

Ramblings from an Independent Consultant

Microsoft Build 2025: Azure AI Search

Microsoft Build 2025: Azure AI Search If you use Azure AI Search for your RAG applications, you are going to be excited about the new features that were just announced at Microsoft Build 2025. Pablo Castro’s talk Knowledge Retrieval: RAG for enterprise agents with Azure AI Search Multimodal search What it is: Why it matters: What you can do with it: Agentic retrieval If you have a comment, please message me @haleyjason on twitter/X.

Posted by Jason on Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Custom AI Search Skill to Convert Markdown Tables to JSON

Custom Azure AI Search Skill to Convert Markdown Tables to JSON I was recently asked what options there are for handling large tables in PDFs, when ingesting files for a RAG application. The question was concerning a retrieval system that was having a problem identifying relevant data in some tables. The problem seemed to be due to the headings not being in the same chunk as the data - so the data doesn’t have any context to indicate its meaning.

Posted by Jason on Sunday, May 18, 2025

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Jason is an experienced developer and solutions architect focused on helping companies provide real business value with custom software development using the Microsoft stack of technologies. This includes C#, .NET, Azure and AI services. In 2024, Jason was awarded a Microsoft MVP in AI - highlighting his latest focus on AI and specifically Generative AI technologies in real world business applications. The prior seven years, he was a Microsoft Azure MVP.

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