The Model Swap Workshop: GPT-5.5 vs Kimi vs DeepSeek vs Mistral — Pamela Fox, Microsoft
Microsoft Foundry workshop teaches model-swapping skills citing US government access restriction risk
“the US government can restrict access to a particular model at any moment. So we need to have a choice”
Pamela Fox ran a hands-on workshop at AI Engineer comparing GPT-5, Kimi K2.6, DeepSeek, and Mistral via Microsoft Foundry, framing model-swapping as a critical engineering skill. The notable angle is her explicit invocation of US government model-access restrictions as a practical reason to build portable AI applications. The content is workshop logistics-heavy with limited new technical or strategic signal.