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+# Announcing Ask Oracle chatbot powered by Select AI
+
+The Ask Oracle sample APEX application is a chatbot user interface for
+no-code Select AI interaction. Using your AI profiles and AI agents
+created using Select AI, you can easily engage with your AI models,
+database data, and vector indexes. While Select AI provides code
+interfaces using SQL, PL/SQL, and Python, this sample APEX application
+enables you to quickly and conveniently give users (coders and
+non-coders alike) access to natural language access to data and AI
+models.
+
+## Ask Oracle overview
+
+Now in version 3, the Ask Oracle chatbot supports a broad range of
+functionality for Select AI:
+
+- **Chat** -- direct interaction with the LLM specified in your selected
+  AI profile
+- **NL2SQL** --query data in your Autonomous AI Database using natural
+  language to SQL generation and your selected AI profile
+- **RAG** -- use retrieval augmented generation (RAG) with your selected
+  AI profile that specified a vector index
+- **AI agents** -interact with your selected AI agent
+- **Explain queries** -- generate LLM-provided explanations of generated
+  queries
+- **Conversations** -- create, manage, and edit conversations for
+  long-term memory, while easily switching between conversations
+- **Charts** -- create and refine charts using explicit control or
+  natural language specification for NL2SQL results
+- **Audio generation** -- listen to responses
+- **AI profile and agent details** -- view details of AI profiles and AI
+  agents for ease of selection and easily see which profile/action or
+  agent used for each prompt
+
+![NL2SQL](../images/NL2SQL-chart.png)
+
+***Figure 1: Ask Oracle chatbot for NL2SQL with chart and SQL
+displayed***
+
+![settings1](../images/chatbot-settings1.png) ![settings1](../images/chatbot-settings2.png) ![settings1](../images/chatbot-settings3.png)
+
+***Figure 2: Ask Oracle chatbot settings for NL2SQL and RAG AI profiles
+as well as Agent Team***
+
+## What is Select AI? 
+
+## APEX in Autonomous AI Database
+
+Oracle APEX (Application Express) is a low-code application development
+platform designed to build scalable, secure, and data-driven web and
+mobile applications. It is tightly integrated with the Oracle AI
+Database, making it a powerful tool for creating database-centric
+applications. APEX allows you to focus on solving business problems
+while abstracting the complexities of traditional coding.
+
+As an APEX application, you can use the Ask Oracle chatbot as is or use
+it as a starting point for further customization.
+
+## Installing the Ask Oracle chatbot
+
+Since Autonomous AI Database has APEX built in, after creating your APEX
+workspace, simply import the Ask Oracle application using the APEX App
+Builder. This quick video will guide through the steps.
+
+* [Install Ask Oracle Chatbot](https://github.com/oracle-devrel/oracle-autonomous-database-samples)
+
+VIDEO LINK
+
+* [You can download the Ask Oracle APEX app here:](https://github.com/oracle-devrel/oracle-autonomous-database-samples/blob/main/apex/apex/Ask-Oracle/ADB-AskOracle-Chatbot-2025-10-07.sql?raw=true)
+
+# Resources
+
+For more information...
+
+* [Autonomous AI Database Select AI](https://www.oracle.com/autonomous-database/select-ai/)
+* [Getting Started with Select AI](https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/autonomous-database-serverless/doc/select-ai-get-started.html)
+* [Manage AI profiles](https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/autonomous-database-serverless/doc/select-ai-manage-profiles.html)
+* [Select AI Agent](https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/autonomous-database-serverless/doc/select-ai-agent.html)
+* [Oracle APEX](https://apex.oracle.com/en/)
+* [APEX in Autonomous AI Database](https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/autonomous-database/serverless/adbsb/application-express-autonomous-database.html)
+
+<hr>
+Copyright (c) 2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates.<br>
+Licensed under the Universal Permissive License v 1.0 as shown at https://oss.oracle.com/licenses/upl/