In this session, you'll get hands-on with the AI Toolkit (AITK) and Microsoft Foundry in VS Code to explore and compare the latest multimodal and reasoning models from the Model Catalog.

By the end of this session, learners will be able to:

Explore and compare models to select the best fit for their business scenario
Augment models with prompts and data to get more accurate and grounded responses
Prototype an agent by combining models and instructions with tools via MCP (Model Context Protocol)