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S1E1 - Hands-on With GitHub Models!

Model Mondays is a weekly livestream series where we put the spotlight on one model or model theme each week, to help you build your model IQ! Plus, get model news highlights in our 5-min roundup.

Three Links To know:
1️⃣ | Watch The Livestream Mondays @ 1:30pm ET · RSVP
2️⃣ | Join The Chat Fridays @ 1:30pm ET · Discord
3️⃣ | Explore Resources for Hands-on Learning · GitHub


S1:E2: RSVP To The Next Episode

🌟 | Register Now and join us live on Monday, Mar 17 at 1:30pm ET

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.

Livestream Mar 17


S1:E1: Recap Of The Last Episode

In our season kickoff episode, we put the spotlight on the GitHub Models Marketplace and showed you how you can kick off your hands-on learning journey into generative AI and language models with just a GitHub account.

Why use GitHub Models? - Simply put, they are an opportunity for you to explore and experiment with cutting-edge AI models, for free! Follow these instructions to get started today!

What can you do with GitHub Models? - The GitHub Models Marketplace provides a subset of the models on the Azure AI Foundry model catalog - for free - as serverless endpoints that you can invoke with just a GitHub Personal Access Token. You can then do the following:

  1. Select a model and use the Playground to explore it interactively
  2. Use the prompt editor to iterate on prototypes
  3. Compare two models side-by-side to help with model selection
  4. Get ready-to-use code snippets to access them from your IDE
  5. Access them using the Visual Studio Code AI Toolkit extension
  6. Save and share your experiments with others.

Watch the livestream recording to see quick demos of many of these features! Then visit the Model Mondays repo each week for updates. We'll have notebooks and additional resources for you to explore shortly.

Missed the livestream? Visit the event page to catch up on replay and resources.


Download The Presentation

Want to share the resources or do a talk about this to your community? Feel free to reuse the slides or share your own!

You can find the slides from this episode at the link below. Use the QR codes to explore the relevant models in the model catalogs, then dive into the GitHub Models spotlight segment to try out the exercises for yourself!


Follow-up Fridays: Community Chat

Have questions or comments? Have you built something with GitHub Models or want to share your insights working with a specific model family or provider? Join us on the Azure AI Discord every Friday at 1:30pm ET for a community chat - using this link

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