TL;DR: The Microsoft Learn module on optimizing generative AI model performance is really about one big idea: don’t treat model quality, grounding, and fine-tuning as separate conversations. In Microsoft Foundry, you improve performance by combining prompt engineering, RAG, and fine-tuning in the right order, then validating the result …

The real story is not that Ollama moved inference off your laptop. It is that it made local and cloud feel like the same machine.

Most people hear “cloud models” and immediately think: expensive, enterprise-y, probably slower than local if the internet sneezes. That reaction is understandable. It is also …