Jason Haley

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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. If you want a video that provides a good overview, I’d recommend watching Pablo Castro’s talk Knowledge Retrieval: RAG for enterprise agents with Azure AI Search, he did a great job highlighting most of the new features. Agentic Retrieval (new feature) From the documentation site: “… agentic retrieval is a new parallel query processing architecture that incorporates user conversation history and Azure OpenAI models to plan, retrieve and synthesize queries for improved results. It produces high-quality grounding data for custom chat and generative AI solutions that include agents.” This …

Posted by Jason on Tuesday, May 20, 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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