<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true">The official blog for Model Mondays Season 2 Episode 1 on the Microsoft TechCommunity was authored.The blog discusses Advanced Reasoning with LLMs and creating Deep Researcher agents using DeepSeek-R1, LangGraph, and Azure AI Foundry.Key highlights include the importance of reasoning-first models, designing reasoning-based scenarios, hands-on labs, and updates in Azure AI Foundry.A special thanks was extended to @nitya and @lee_stott for their support and guidance.The blog invites those exploring reasoning models to connect and share their work in the AzureAI community.