The Tools You’ll Use: • Azure AI Agent Service (Production-grade foundation)
• Semantic Kernel (Memory + planning)
• AutoGen (Multi-agent workflows)
• GitHub Models (Free LLMs to prototype fast) No paid API keys required to get started.
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Free AI Tools for Prototyping Without Paid Keys
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AI Agents Explained: From Zero to Production Course
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What even is an AI Agent? Think: • ChatGPT that uses tools
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Microsoft’s AI Agents for Beginners course on GitHub
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AI agents for beginners by Microsoft: https://t.co/2gkkzmexFO
— God of Prompt (@godofprompt) 9 avril 2025
Check this out: pic.twitter.com/d12xX5LaVgAI agents for beginners by Microsoft: https://
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Stanford’s AlphaXiv Deep Research Automates Literature Reviews Instantly
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Stanford students' research discussion forum AlphaXiv introduced Deep Research for arXiv
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 9 avril 2025
The tool compiles literature reviews from trending papers, turning hours of research work into mere seconds of natural language searchpic.twitter.com/wvrVtiqNoWStanford students' research discussion forum AlphaXiv introduced Deep Research for arXiv The tool compiles literature reviews from trending papers, turning hours of research work into mere seconds of natural language search
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Google Launches Deep Research on Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Google made headlines by making Deep Research available on Gemini 2.5 Pro Exp The move enables Gemini to create superior research reports over rivals Also includes new audio overviews to turn reports into podcast-like conversations!
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Amazon Nova Sonic Speech-to-Speech AI Outperforms OpenAI Models
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Amazon launched Nova Sonic speech-to-speech AI for human-like interactions
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 9 avril 2025
—Outperforms OpenAI's voice models with ~ 80% less cost
—4.2% word error rate across languages
— 46.7% better accuracy than GPT-4o for noisy environments
—On Amazon Bedrockpic.twitter.com/5e5nAeUXhvAmazon launched Nova Sonic speech-to-speech AI for human-like interactions —Outperforms OpenAI's voice models with ~ 80% less cost
—4.2% word error rate across languages
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Gemini Deep Research Feature Demonstrates Advanced AI Capabilities
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A nice example of what the Deep Research feature can do. https://
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Lutra.ai Early Support Now Available for AI Users
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Amazon Blocks ChatGPT Operator Access Amid Browser Agent Battle
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Wow, just noticed that http://
Amazon.com is blocking ChatGPT's operator from accessing it. How do you think browser agents are going to pan out in this battle?