A Journey into Open Source Models with HuggingFace & Mistral
summary
Azure AI Studio hosts a searchable model catalog with 1,600+ models, integrated fine tuning, evaluation metrics and deployment paths including Model-as-a-Service and serverless fine‑tuning. Mistral uses a mixture of experts (8 experts, 2 selected at inference) to deliver large‑model performance at lower cost, offering open models like Mistral 7B, 8x7B and Mixtral-8x22B 64k context with native function calling and JSON output. Hugging Face provides 600,000 models, model cards, community fine‑tunes and many language‑specific options for assembling multi‑model pipelines.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Open source models intro
- 1:13Why choose open source
- 7:39Azure AI Studio basics
- 11:11Mistral’s model architecture
- 16:51Mistral function calling
- 21:33AI apps with Hugging Face
- 24:44Multi-model workflow example
- 27:50Deployment in Azure AI Studio
- 30:41Next steps resources
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