2.1 Release Notes for the genaiPlatform package.

We are pleased to announce version 2.1 of the Genai Platform Plugin. This provides key Generative AI capabilities through the package genaiPlatform. The documentation for this package is available here. This release supports C3 AI Platform version 8.6. We also expect to be releasing versions with the same APIs to support Platform versions 8.7 and 8.8, respectively.

The 2.1 release adds the GenaiCore.Tool framework to register, call, and convert tools to be used agentic applications. We have also added optional tracing for all core components. This allows you to capture trace information without additional code changes and uses the OpenTracing standard for representing traces. Additional improvements include support for batch embedding requests and calling LLMs from the Azure Ai Model Catalog. Further details about the new features and changes in this release are available in the changelog.