Where is Model Mondays - Spotlight on Microsoft AI Models?

Model Mondays - Spotlight on Microsoft AI Models is an online event on Microsoft Reactor livestream (Register for link).

How much does Model Mondays - Spotlight on Microsoft AI Models cost?

Model Mondays - Spotlight on Microsoft AI Models is free to attend.

Do I need to register for Model Mondays - Spotlight on Microsoft AI Models?

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Model Mondays - Spotlight on Microsoft AI Models

Model Mondays - Spotlight on Microsoft AI Models is an AI webinar on Monday, August 3, 2026 online, free to attend. Presented by Microsoft Reactor.

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Monday, August 3, 2026

10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Microsoft Reactor livestream (Register for link)

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Presented by Microsoft Reactor

Featuring: Sharmila Chockalingam, Nitya Narasimhan on LinkedIn

Model Mondays is Microsoft Reactor's livestream series on model choice, and this edition puts the spotlight on the MAI family: the seven models Microsoft announced in-house at Build in June, spanning image, voice, transcription, coding and reasoning. The Microsoft AI models team joins to cover what is new in the family, how it works under the hood, and how to use the models when building agents. Questions are taken live, and the conversation carries on afterwards in the Azure AI Foundry Discord.

Anu's Take

Microsoft spent years letting somebody else's lab be its AI story. There are seven models with its own name on them now, and the launch post makes a point of saying they were trained from scratch with nothing distilled from another lab. That is a sentence you only write when people have been asking, so I would rather hear the team that built them talk through it than read it again.

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Published Monday, July 27, 2026 by Anu Jolliffe on LinkedIn

I run Microsoft's AI all day by choice, so who is actually building the models underneath is not an academic question for me: why I replaced Google search with Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Frequently asked questions

When is Model Mondays - Spotlight on Microsoft AI Models?: Monday, August 3, 2026, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m..
Where is Model Mondays - Spotlight on Microsoft AI Models?: Model Mondays - Spotlight on Microsoft AI Models is an online event on Microsoft Reactor livestream (Register for link).
How much does Model Mondays - Spotlight on Microsoft AI Models cost?: Model Mondays - Spotlight on Microsoft AI Models is free to attend.
Do I need to register for Model Mondays - Spotlight on Microsoft AI Models?: Yes, register in advance on the organizer's page, linked from the event.
Is Model Mondays - Spotlight on Microsoft AI Models worth attending?: Microsoft spent years letting somebody else's lab be its AI story. There are seven models with its own name on them now, and the launch post makes a point of saying they were trained from scratch with nothing distilled from another lab. That is a sentence you only write when people have been asking, so I would rather hear the team that built them talk through it than read it again.

Model Mondays - Spotlight on Microsoft AI Models

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