Model Mondays S2E01: Advanced Reasoning

Want to learn advanced techniques to improve AI's reasoning and problem-solving skills, enabling smarter and more efficient decision-making? Join us as we talk to Marlene Mhangami about her work building a Deep Researcher using Deep Seek R1 and LangChain.

LiveStream: Jun 16
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/reactor/events/25905/

AMA: Jun 20
https://discord.gg/azureaifoundry?event=1382860017660854372

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1. Marlene Mhangami Sr. Developer Advocate, Microsoft Advanced Reasoning MODEL MONDAYS S2:E01 Models JUN 16, 2025 · 1:30-2:00 PM ET https://aka.ms/model-mondays/rsvp
2. Join: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/discord View: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/forum Model Mondays ADVANCED REASONING MODELS JUN 16, 2025
3. Sharmila Chockalingam Senior PMM, Azure AI Weekly Highlights WHAT’S NEW IN AZURE |AI FOUNDRY THIS WEEK?
4. ❶ · Try Direct from Azure Models Direct From Azure Models Reduce These are models that are hosted and sold by Microsoft. In this offer models available in PTU can share reservations including openAI models Join: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/discord View: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/forum
5. ❷ · Try SORA on video playground SORA available on Video Playground Go from prompt to playback with SORA on Azure AI Foundry Join: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/discord View: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/forum
6. ❸ · Try Model RouterI Model Router A deployable AI chat model that is trained to select the best large language model (LLM) to respond to a given prompt in real time1. It can be deployed to optimize costs and performance at runtime, allowing easy switching of models and comparison with the Azure AI model Join: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/discord View: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/forum
7. ❹ · Try Grok Models Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini A breakthrough AI model that access to Grok 3’s advanced capabilities in a secure, scalable environment. Join: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/discord View: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/forum
8. ❺ · Try DeepSeek R1 0528 DeepSeek R1 0528 The latest evolution in the DeepSeek R1 open-source series of reasoning- optimized models, is now available on the Azure AI Foundry Join: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/discord View: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/forum
9. Marlene Mhangami Senior Developer Advocate @Microsoft Advanced Reasoning Models THIS WEEK: SPOTLIGHT ON
10. ❶ · What is a Reasoning model? What Are Reasoning Models Reasoning models are LLMs trained with reinforcement learning to perform reasoning. These models think before they answer, producing a long internal chain of thought before responding to the user. Resource: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/ai-foundry/model-inference/tutorials/get-started-deepseek-r1 Tutorial: Get started with DeepSeek-R1 reasoning on Azure AI Foundry Models Step-by-step guide to deploy & use DeepSeek- R1 via portal & SDK
11. ❷· What are some examples? OpenAI o4-mini DeepSeek R1-0528 MAI-DS-RI Variant Phi-4 Reasoning The most efficient reasoning model in the o-model series, well suited for agentic solutions. This R1 version has improved reasoning and inference capabilities and enhanced features. This is a Microsoft post-trained version of DeepSeek-R1 to improve its harm protections & fill in information gaps. A Microsoft SOTA open-weights model fine-tuned from Phi-4 to give advanced reasoning in SLM form factor. Resource: https://ai.azure.com/explore/models
12. ❸ · What are the core tradeoffs? Resource: https://aka.ms/discuss/build25-lab333 Get hands-on with Azure OpenAI o-series of models to learn usage (from text to visual reasoning), tradeoffs and core capabilities Microsoft Build Lab 333 with step-by-step guides Lab: Hands-on with o4-mini
13. ❹ · What are advanced scenarios? Resource: https://github.com/Azure-Samples/deepresearch This sample creates a reasoning, AI-powered researcher with LangChain and DeepSeek R1 Star and Fork The Sample To Try it Out! Sample: Deep Research with R1
14. ❺· Try It: Step-by-step guide Resource: https://aka.ms/build/lab331 Learn to use Reasoning Models like DeepSeek R1 for deep research solutions Explore Lab 331 from Microsoft Build 2025 Lab: Hands-on with DeepSeek R1
15. Den Delimarksy Principal PM, Core AI @Microsoft Model Context Protocol NEXT WEEK: SPOTLIGHT ON
16. Foundry Friday AMA Q&A WITH SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS https://aka.ms/model-mondays/chat Every Friday at 1:30pm EST
17. Fri 1:30pm ET Join The Discord https://aka.ms/model-mondays/Discord Links To Resources Summary of AMA https://aka.ms/model-mondays/Forum #ModelMondays WATCH LIVE ON MONDAY FIND RECAPS ON FORUM JOIN AMA ON FRIDAY Mon 1:30pm ET Register Here https://aka.ms/model-mondays/RSVP