Merge pull request #1804 from oracle-devrel/hqureshi-25

A Beginner’s Guide to Using OCI Generative AI with Oracle Integration

Author: MarcelStraka

app-dev/app-integration-and-automation/shared-assets/README.md

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 ## Blogs
 
+-[A Beginner’s Guide to Using OCI Generative AI with Oracle Integration](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beginners-guide-using-oci-generative-ai-oracle-harris-qureshi-wqcof/)
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+Designed for Oracle Integration developers, this beginner-friendly guide walks you through:
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+ • Exploring the OCI Generative AI Playground
+ • Understanding the OCI Gen AI Inference API
+ • Calling OCI Gen AI directly from Oracle Integration
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+Whether you're experimenting or building real use cases, this step-by-step intro will help you bridge the gap between integration and Gen AI. It also includes a hands on demo.
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 - [Agentic AI Workflows in Oracle Integration: Unlocking the Power of Generative AI](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/agentic-ai-workflows-oracle-integration-unlocking-power-qureshi-nxm0f)
 
     What if your integrations could reason, plan, and act on their own? In this article, I explore how Agentic AI Workflows in OIC, powered by OCI Generative AI, enable dynamic, 𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛–𝙤𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙙𝙖𝙥𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚.