Model Mondays S2E13: Open-Source Models & Hugging Face

Did you know the Hugging Face collection on Azure AI Foundry Models currently has over 10K options? When should we use them and how do we select the right one? Join us as we talk to Jeff Boudier (VP of Product at Hugging Face) about getting started with Hugging Face models on Azure AI Foundry – and how you can request new additions for your AI development needs.

Customer Stories: Draftwise
In this episode we're sharing a BUILD 2025 segment from James Ding, CEO and Co-founder at DraftWise, sharing how AI models are revolutionizing legal contracting! Before founding DraftWise, James led product teams at Palantir, building AI and big data solutions for clients in manufacturing, finance, and cybersecurity. He is an inventor with multiple patents in data security, machine learning, and cloud computing.

Register:
Livestreamed: Sep 15 / https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/reactor/events/26132/
Discord AMA: Sep 19 / https://discord.gg/Z8JZsrP5P5?event=1414657387062628442

Catch-up After:
Livestream Recording: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/playlist
AMA Schedule: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/forum

About Model Mondays:
GitHub: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/
Livestream: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/rsvp
Discord: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/discord

Transcript

1. Jeff Boudier VP of Product / Hugging Face Open-Source Models MODEL MONDAYS S2:E13 Models Hosted By: Nitya Narasimhan SEP 15, 2025 · 1:30-2:30 PM ET
2. Livestream (Mon) · AMA (Fri) https://aka.ms/model-Mondays/rsvp Model Mondays JUN 2025 – SEP 2025
3. Sharmila Chockalingam Senior PMM, Azure AI Weekly Highlights WHAT’S NEW IN AZURE |AI FOUNDRY THIS WEEK?
4. ❶ · Try · o4-mini RFT o4-mini RFT now GA Fine tune with a very small sample size and a variety of graders Join: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/discord View: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/forum
5. ❷ · Try · Azure Speech Translation Live Interpreter API Real Time Multilingual Conversations with personal voice and human interpreter level latency Join: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/discord View: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/forum
6. ❸ · Read · Agent Factory Agent Factory The story of agent development has moved from “can we build one?” to “how do we make them work together, safely and at scale?” Join: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/discord View: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/forum
7. ❹ · Try · Ask Ralph Ask Ralph A conversational AI shopping experience built on Azure OpenAI and available in the Ralph Lauren app in US. Join: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/discord View: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/forum
8. ❺ · Try · VS Code 2025 Visual Studio Code 2025 Model flexibility, security , productivity and many more upgrades Join: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/discord View: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/forum
9. Nitya Narasimhan, PhD Senior AI Advocate, Microsoft Weekly Spotlight HOSTED BY
10. Jeff Boudier VP of Product / Hugging Face Open-Source Models MODEL MONDAYS S2:E13 Models Hosted By: Nitya Narasimhan SEP 15, 2025 · 1:30-2:30 PM ET
11. ❶ Try HF · Azure AI Foundry Hugging Face Models on Azure AI Foundry Choose from 10K+ open-source models and fine-tuned variants for a variety of tasks! Visit: https://ai.azure.com View: https://huggingface.co/docs/microsoft-azure/azure-ai Find community-created models for tasks ranging from chat completion to image and audio classification, text-to- image generation, visual question-answering and more.
12. ❷ · Follow · Microsoft Org Follow the Microsoft Org on Hugging Face Explore the latest papers, datasets and model releases from Microsoft Research Action: Explore Microsoft Research on HF View: https://huggingface.co/microsoft VibeVoice is a novel framework designed for generating expressive, long-form, multi- speaker conversational audio, such as podcasts, from text.
13. ❸ Try HF · Foundry Local Compile & Run Hugging Face Models on Foundry Local Use the Olive tool to convert HF models to ONNX format for local AI Action: Try Local AI Development Learn about Olive: https://microsoft.github.io/Olive/ How to Use Custom Models with Foundry Local: A Beginner's Guide Kinfey Lo Aug 2025
14. ❹ · Try HF · GHCP VS Code Use Hugging Face Models to power your GitHub Copilot Chat Bring your HF API key and manage the model used in VS Code! Try It: HF Provider for GitHub Copilot Chat Explore: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/ Visual Studio Code allows you to “bring your own language model key” to use with GitHub Copilot Chat Hugging Face just released a VS Code extension to bring HF model providers to VS Code using this capability ..
15. ❺ · Try It · VSC AI Toolkit Convert a model with AI Toolkit for VS Code Model conversion in IDE helps AI Engineers quantize, optimize & evaluate ML models on local device hardware Convert: HF Models! View: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/intelligentapps/modelconversion
16. Customer Stories: DraftWise MODEL MONDAYS S2:E13 Featuring: James Ding CEO and Founder, DraftWise With: Nitya Narasimhan, PhD Industry Sukrit Chatterjee Visit: https://draftwise.com
17. ❶ · See · AI for Contracts Draftwise demonstrate how they revolutionized contract drafting with Azure AI Foundry Explore more customer stories on our site! Explore: https://aka.ms/model-mondays/customer-stories View: Draftwise @ BUILD 2025
18. Join Discord For AMAs Foundry Friday AMA AZURE AI FOUNDRY DISCORD OPEN-SOURCE & HUGGING FACE SEP 19, 2025 · 1:30-2:00 PM ET Jeff Boudier VP of Product / Hugging Face
19. Join Discord For Updates Model Mondays S3 AZURE AI FOUNDRY DISCORD https://aka.ms/model-mondays 10+ New Episodes! Launching Dec 2025 Highlights, Spotlights, Customer Stories & Curricula Drops! Build Model IQ – One Week At A Time! Currently In Planning
20. ❺ · Register · AI Tour ’26 The Microsoft AI Tour kicks off in 10 days! Register – it’s free! A full-day with AI expert sessions, cutting-edge demos & hands-on labs Action: Register & Explore The Resources! View: https://aitour.microsoft.com
21. Join Discord For Launches AZURE AI FOUNDRY DISCORD https://aka.ms/model-mondays/discord Make Friends With The Latest Models LAUNCHES OCT 2025 WEEKLY DROPS Fundamentals · Selection · Customization · Observability Models For Beginners
22. 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