Model Mondays S1:E3 - Hands-on With Search & Retrieval Models

Model Mondays S1:E2 - Hands-on With Search & Retrieval 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 Neel Gokhale as we dive into the world of search and retrieval models for solutions like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). We’ll get hands-on with the Cohere Rerank v3.5 model and more as we learn what reranking means, and how this model is differentiating itself in terms of both precision and multilingual capabilities

Session Resources:
https://aka.ms/model-mondays
https://aka.ms/model-mondays/discord
https://aka.ms/model-mondays/chat
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/25354/

Transcript

1. New Series · Season 1 Ep 3 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 24, 2025 – 10:30am PT | 1:30pm ET Welcome to Model Mondays
3. 5-min Highlights (News) 5-min Highlights Neel Gokhale 15-min Spotlight (Cohere) #Model Mondays | Mar 24 Search & Retrieval Models Resources: https://aka.ms/model-Mondays AMA : https://aka.ms/model-Mondays/chat
4. Sharmila Chockalingam 5 Key Things To Know This Week! Model Mondays Highlights
5. ❶ · Try NIM Models https://aka.ms/model-mondays NIM Microservices on Azure AI Foundry Secure, reliable and high performance AI inferencing on managed compute in Azure AI Foundry
6. ❷ · Try NVIDIA AgentIQ https://aka.ms/model-mondays Azure AI Agent Service+ NVIDIA AgentIQ Seamlessly connect, profile and optimize teams of AI agents with enhanced semantic reasoning and task execution capabilities
7. ❸ · Try Optimized Llama https://aka.ms/model-mondays NVIDIA Inference Optimizations on LLama Models State of the art inference performance improvements and increases cost efficiency while mainintaning response quality.
8. ❹ · Try Mistral Small https://aka.ms/model-mondays Mistral Small A multi-model, multi- lingual model that is optimized for consumer grade hardware and its performance is equivalent to Gemma 3 and GPT-4mini
9. ❺ · Try Saifr/Fidelity model https://aka.ms/model-mondays Saifr+Adobe+Azure AI Foundry Redefining compliant content creation in financial services industry
10. Hands-on with Search & Retrieval Models Solution Architect Cohere Neel Gokhale
11. ❶ · Cohere + Azure AI Foundry https://docs.cohere.com/v2/docs/cohere-on-azure/cohere-on-azure-ai-foundry Introduction to Azure AI Foundry For Cohere Users Code Snippets for Multiple Languages
12. ❷ · Getting Started with SDK https://docs.cohere.com/v2/docs/cohere-on-microsoft-azure Text Generation Embeddings Rerank Using the Cohere SDK
13. ❸ · Inference examples to try https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/concepts/models-featured#cohere Code samples in many languages Python notebook to explore model RAG samples for advanced usage
14. ❹ · Cohere Models on GitHub https://github.com/marketplace?publisher=Cohere&type=models Start exploring for free with just a GitHub Account Prompt editor and Playground Cohere & Azure AI Inference SDKs
15. ❸ · Cohere Models on Azure https://ai.azure.com/explore/models?selectedCollection=cohere Cohere Rerank 3.5 is available Improve search result relevance Multilingual (with 100+ languages) Has Multilingual evaluation suite
16. Hands-on with Visual Generative Models Global Partnership Lead Stability AI What is Visual Generative AI? How can I use text-to-image and image-to-image capabilities with Stable Diffusion? Next Episode: Mar 31, 2025 Ken Hoge
17. Join the #model-mondays channel https://aka.ms/model-Mondays/chat Q&A Office hours every Friday on Discord – bring questions, share your projects!
18. 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