Model Mondays is a practical livestream series for building model expertise one week at a time. Explore model capabilities, selection, customization, and the patterns that help developers build effective AI agents with Microsoft Foundry.
- Model Mondays: livestreams featuring model news, technical spotlights, and demos.
- Foundry Fridays: on-demand expert AMAs, numbered independently from seasons.
- Models for Beginners: self-guided curriculum.
September 25, 2026 · 1:30-2:00 PM ET
Speaker: Charles Kim, Product Lead, Core AI, Microsoft
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Season 4 runs from August 10 through November 2, 2026. Each episode focuses on a model family or model-selection technique relevant to building AI agents.
| Ep | Date | Spotlight | Host | Guest speaker(s) | Page |
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| 01 | Aug 10, 2026 | Spotlight on MAI Models | Amy Boyd | Sophie Lebrecht Yanan Cai |
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| 02 | Aug 17, 2026 | Cohere for Agentic AI | Bethany Jepchumba | Andy Tran | View |
| 03 | Aug 24, 2026 | Spotlight on Model Router | Lee Stott | Sanjeev Jagtap Lee Stott Nitya Narasimhan Sharmila Chockalingam |
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| 04 | Aug 31, 2026 | From Research to Reality | Nitya Narasimhan | Gulsimo Osimi Yash Lara |
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| 05 | Sep 14, 2026 | Claude Models in Microsoft Foundry: Tool Integrations in Practice | Gustavo Cordido | Amanda Wong Haoran Cheng |
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| 06 | Sep 21, 2026 | Spotlight on Azure OpenAI | Nitya Narasimhan | Ananya Bishnoi | View |
| 07 | Sep 28, 2026 | Mistral OCR-4 & Building AI Agents in Microsoft Foundry | Amy Boyd | Victor Rojo Peyman Mohajerian |
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| 08 | Oct 5, 2026 | Fine-Tuned Models | Bethany Jepchumba | — | View |
| 09 | Oct 12, 2026 | Spotlight on Speech Models | Gustavo Cordido | — | View |
| 10 | Oct 19, 2026 | Spotlight on Hugging Face | Amy Boyd | — | View |
| 11 | Oct 26, 2026 | Spotlight on Open Models | Bethany Jepchumba | — | View |
| 12 | Nov 2, 2026 | Spotlight on NVIDIA Models | Nitya Narasimhan | — | View |
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Season 3
| Ep | Topic | Host | Speaker(s) | Replay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Model Router | — | Sanjeev Jagtap | Playlist |
| 02 | AI Red Teaming | — | Minsoo Thigpen | Playlist |
| 03 | Foundry Local | — | Maanav Dalal | Playlist |
| 04 | Microsoft Agent Framework | Korey Stegared-Pace | Shawn Henry | Playlist |
| 05 | Responses API | Nitya Narasimhan | Guy Gregory | Playlist |
| 06 | Fine-Tuning & Responses API | Bethany Jepchumba | Dave Voutila; Guy Gregory | Playlist |
| 07 | Synthetic Data Generation | Bethany Jepchumba | William Liang | Playlist |
| 08 | Foundry Portal & Next-Gen UI | Nitya Narasimhan | Amir Zur | Playlist |
| 09 | Foundry Labs | Nitya Narasimhan | Yash Lara | Playlist |
| 10 | Foundry Agents | Carlotta Castelluccio | Bala Venkataraman | Playlist |
| 11 | BFL & Microsoft Foundry Observability | Nitya Narasimhan | Sebastian Kohlmeier | Playlist |
| 12 | AI Toolkit | April Gittens | Leo Yao | Playlist |
| 13 | Foundry IQ | Carlotta Castelluccio | Farzad Sunavala | Playlist |
| 14 | Foundry Tools & MCP | Lee Stott | SeokJin Han | Playlist |
| 15 | Hugging Face, Agent 365 & Work IQ | Gustavo Cordido | Jeff Boudier; Srikumar Nair | Playlist |
| 16 | Cohere & GitHub Agentic Workflows | Andrea Griffiths | Peli de Halleux | Playlist |
| 17 | Building Foundry Agents Code-First in Visual Studio Code | Carlotta Castelluccio | Junjie Li; Filisha Shah | Playlist |
Season 2
| Ep | Topic | Host | Speaker(s) | Replay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Advanced Reasoning | — | Marlene Mhangami | YouTube |
| 02 | Model Context Protocol | — | Den Delimarsky | YouTube |
| 03 | SLMs and Reasoning | — | Mojan Javaheripi | YouTube |
| 04 | AI Developer Experiences | — | Leo Yao | YouTube |
| 05 | Fine Tuning & Distillation | — | Dave Voutila | YouTube |
| 06 | Research & Innovation | — | SeokJin Han; Saumil Shrivastava | YouTube |
| 07 | AI-Assisted Azure Development | — | Sandeep Sen | YouTube |
| 08 | On-Device & Local AI | — | Maanav Dalal | YouTube |
| 09 | Models for AI Agents | — | Mona Whalin | YouTube |
| 10 | Document Processing | — | Mistral AI | YouTube |
| 11 | Speech Playground | — | Utkarsh Maheswari | YouTube |
| 12 | Models & Observability | — | Han Che | YouTube |
| 13 | Open-Source Models | — | Jeff Boudier | YouTube |
Season 1
| Ep | Topic | Host | Speaker(s) | Replay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | GitHub Models | — | Nitya Narasimhan | YouTube |
| 02 | Reasoning Models | — | Jennifer Marsman | Playlist |
| 03 | Search & Retrieval | — | Neel Gokhale | Playlist |
| 04 | Visual Generative Models | — | Ken Hoge | Playlist |
| 05 | Fine-Tuning Models | — | — | Playlist |
| 06 | Local AI Development | — | — | Playlist |
| 07 | Open Source Models | — | — | Playlist |
| 08 | Forecasting Models | — | Nixtla / TimeGEN | Playlist |