Model Mondays S1:E2 - Hands-on With Reasoning Models

Join us for Model Mondays – a weekly show where we round up all the latest AI model news and put one model in the spotlight for a deeper dive.

In this episode, we’re joined by Jennifer Marsman as we dive into the world of reasoning models. We’ll get hands-on with the o1 series of models and more as we learn what these models can do, how they work, and how you can use them most effectively for your generative AI application needs.

Session Resources:
https://aka.ms/model-mondays
https://aka.ms/model-mondays/discord
https://aka.ms/model-mondays/collection

Explore The Resources
https://aka.ms/model-mondays

Watch The Replay
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/reactor/events/25266/

Transcript

1. New Series · Starts Mar 10 https://aka.ms/model-mondays Model Mondays 10:30 am PT | 1:30 pm ET
2. Senior AI Advocate https://aka.ms/model-mondays/RSVP Nitya Narasimhan, PhD Sharmila Chockalingam Senior Product Marketing Mgr. Mar 17, 2025 – 10:30am PT | 1:30pm ET Welcome to Model Mondays
3. Sharmila Chockalingam 5 Key Things To Know This Week! Model Mondays Highlights
4. ❶ · Try Mistral Fine-Tuned https://aka.ms/model-mondays Mistral Large, Nemo & Ministral Fine-tune Mistral models with your dataset to achieve improved latency, cost- efficiency, and customized outputs
5. ❷ · Try Gretel Navigator https://aka.ms/model-mondays Gretel Navigator Achieve scalable, cost- effective synthetic data creation while ensuring accuracy, quality, and explainability.
6. ❸ · Try GPT-4o on AOAI https://aka.ms/model-mondays GPT-4o-Audio and GPT-4o- Realtime Revolutionalize conversational AI applications with human-like voices, stable streaming and low latency.
7. ❹ · Try GPT-4.5 on AOAI https://aka.ms/model-mondays GPT-4.5 on AOAI GPT-4.5 offers more natural interactions, improved accuracy, and stronger human alignment for AI- driven tasks
8. ❺ · Try Codestral 25.01 https://aka.ms/model-mondays Codestral 25.01 Seamlessly handle complex code-generation tasks while also serving as conversational assistant for technical queries .
9. Hands-on with Reasoning Models Jennifer Marsman Principal Engineer AI, Microsoft What are Reasoning Models? When should we use them – or not use them? How can we get started hands-on?
10. ❶ · What is a Reasoning Model https://github.com/jennifermarsman/o1Analysis We walked through a summer camp scheduling problem, plus 3 more examples to demonstrate the new class of complex problems that reasoning models can solve.
11. https://github.com/jennifermarsman/o1Analysis ❷ · How can I get started? You can try all four examples yourself using the Jupyter notebook in the code repo. Running multiple times will better demonstrate the range of responses.
12. https://github.com/jennifermarsman/o1Analysis ❸ · When should I NOT use it? Don’t upgrade to use reasoning models in all scenarios! Choose the least expensive, fastest model that will get the job done.
13. https://github.com/jennifermarsman/o1Analysis ❹ · When should I use it? However, reasoning models are best for solving complex problems. Experiment and choose the best model for your use case.
14. https://github.com/jennifermarsman/o1Analysis ❺ · Go beyond o1 Series Experiment and choose the best model for your use case! The Azure AI Foundry model catalog has over 1800 models, including many reasoning models.
15. Hands-on with Search & Retrieval Models Solution Architect Cohere What is Cohere Rerank? How can it help improve search and retrieval for RAG-based applications using our data Next Episode: Mar 24, 2025 Neel Gokhale
16. Join the #model-mondays channel https://aka.ms/model-Mondays/chat Q&A Office hours every Friday on Discord – bring questions, share your projects!
17. Watch the Livestream Join the Conversation Explore the Resources Mon 1:30pm ET Microsoft Reactor https://aka.ms/model-mondays/RSVP Fri 1:30pm ET Azure AI Discord https://aka.ms/model-mondays/Discord Watch or Star GitHub Repo https://aka.ms/model-monday #ModelMondays