Model Mondays: Bringing AI Home with Local Development

As generative AI tools become more powerful, developers are looking for faster, more flexible ways to experiment, fine-tune, and deploy models. But not every workflow starts—or needs to stay—in the cloud. In this episode of Model Mondays, we explore how the AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code is transforming the development experience by enabling local AI workflows that give you more control, faster iteration, and seamless integration with your existing tools.

Whether you're working in a constrained environment, or just prefer to prototype locally, this toolkit makes it possible to run and refine AI models right from your own machine.

Whether you're tinkering with models on a plane, prototyping in a coffee shop, or just want to test your prompts in peace, this toolkit has your back. It's like taking your favorite AI models on a road trip... and they actually behave.

What’s in it for you?

Each Model Mondays episode is a 30-minute boost to your AI skillset:

• Stay updated – A 5-min recap of the week’s hottest model drops and Azure AI Foundry news
• Get hands-on – A 15-min walkthrough focused on how to fine-tune Mistral in Azure
• Ask the experts – Live Q&A with Microsoft and Mistral 

And the conversation doesn’t stop there. Join us every Friday for a Model Mondays Watercooler Chat at 1:30 PM ET / 10:30 AM PT in our Discord community, where we recap, react, and nerd out with the broader AI community.

In Case You Missed It

• Episode 1: GitHub Models – Building better dev experiences
• Episode 2: Reasoning Models 
• Episode 3: Search & Retrieval Models
• Episode 4 : Visual Generative Models
• Episode 5 : Fine-Tuning Models

Be Part of the Movement

• Watch Live on Microsoft Reactor – RSVP Now
• Join the AI Community – Discord Fridays
• Explore the Tech – Model Mondays GitHub

So, grab your laptop, launch VS Code, and let’s bring AI development home!!