Model Mondays is a weekly 30-min livestream (on Mondays) with an AMA session (on Fridays) to help you keep up with the rapid pace of innovation in AI models.
- Highlights · a 5-min recap of top model news from the last week.
- Spotlight · a 15-min deep dive into a single model, with an expert.
- Community · a 30-min AMA for interactive QA with experts, on Discord.
Join us, and take action to build your model IQ one week at a time!
In this episode, we’ll go hands on with local AI development by putting the spotlight on the AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. Join us as we speak to Rong Lu (Principal PM, Microsoft) to learn how this tool helps developers build intelligent apps using generative AI models deployed locally or in the cloud -with support for development, testing, fine-tuning and more.
- Click here to register for livestream on Monday, Apr 14
- Click here to join Discord (and watch for our AMA announcement)
- Click here to learn more about the AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
In this episode, we dive into the word of fine-tuning for AI model customization and put the spotlight on the Mistral collection in the Azure AI Foundry model catalog. We’ll discuss how it works, when to use it, and the tradeoffs to know when choosing this option. And we talk about workflow and best practices for performant fine-tuning on Azure.
- Click here to see the demos in our spotlight segment
- Click here to read how fine tuning can teach your model new tricks
- Click here to join us for an AMA with the speaker this Friday, Apr 11
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Important
- Join our Discord · Watch the #model-mondays channel for updates!
- Register for Livestream · Watch live every Monday @1:30pm ET.
- Register for AMA · Join us for interactive QA every Friday @1:30pm ET.
| Episode | Stream | Video | Blog | Slides | AMA | Code |
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| E01 · GitHub Models | Mar 10 | Play |
GitHub Models | Mar 14 | ||
| E02 · Reasoning Models | Mar 17 | Play |
OpenAI, DeepSeek | Mar 21 | Sample | |
| E03 · Search + Retrieval | Mar 24 | Play |
Cohere Rerank | Mar 28 | ||
| E04 · Visual + Generative | Mar 31 | Play |
Stable Diffusion | Apr 03 | ||
| E05 · Fine-Tuning | Apr 07 | RSVP |
Mistral | Apr 10 |
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| E06 · Local AI Development | Apr 14 | RSVP |
AI Toolkit (AITK) | - | Apr 17 | |
| E07 · Open Source & AI | Apr 21 | RSVP |
Llama Stack (Meta) | - | Apr 21 | |
| E08 · Forecasting Models | Apr 28 | RSVP |
Nixtla TimeGEN | - | Apr 28 | |
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In this episode, we are joined by Ken Hoge from Stability AI. Find out how their models enable visual generative AI applicatons with text-to-image and image-to-image capabiltiies, for delivering high-resolution and representative imagery.
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In this episode, we are joined by Neel Gokhale from Cohere. Find out how reranking improves relevance of search results for Retrieval Augmented Generation, and see a hands-on demo with the Cohere Rerank v3.5 model.
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In this episode, we are joined by Jennifer Marsman from Microsoft. Find out what reasoning models are, and why they are taking the AI world by storm. See a hands-on demo with the OpenAI o1 model and a real-world use case.
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In this episode, we are joined by Nitya Narasimhan from Microsoft. Find out what GitHub Models are and how they can help you jumpstart your generative AI learning journey for free, with just your GitHub account. Make GitHub Models your AI learning sandbox!
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