The model swap workshop

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Frontier labs are releasing new models constantly, and it is hard to know when “better” is better

enough to justify touching a working system. On top of that, “just swap the model” often turns into

real work because providers expose different APIs and different expectations around tools and

structured outputs. The model swap workshop is a hands-on bake-off across frontier LLMs. We will run

the same scenarios using multiple models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Kimi, and more) and compare results

side by side for agentic tool use, structured outputs, and multimodal tasks. Swapping models is not

just changing a model name. In this workshop, you will actually do the swaps, including moving

between OpenAI-style Responses APIs and Anthropic-style Messages APIs, then see what breaks and what

needs to change in your prompts, tool definitions, and JSON strategies. We will finish by running a

small eval suite so you can quantify tradeoffs instead of relying on vibes. We will provide the

Microsoft Foundry environment for access to the models, no account needed.

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