Getting Started
This guide takes you from a freshly installed platform to chatting with your own model. It assumes the platform is already running; if not, start with Installation.
1. Deploy a model
Open Models in the portal and create a deployment from a Model preset — pick a chat model from the list, give the deployment a name, and confirm. The platform places it on an available GPU and starts serving it.
No GPU at hand? Connect an external model (OpenAI, Azure, …) instead. Open Models in the portal, select the External Models tab, then select Connect external model. The connection is listed on that tab, and it behaves like any other model from here on.
2. Open the chat
Open the built-in Chat from the portal. It's ready to go — nothing to deploy or connect.
3. Pick your model and chat
Chat's model picker lists every chat-capable model you have access to. Select the one you just deployed and start talking to it.
(Only chat models appear here — embedding and reranker models are filtered out.)