Microsoft unveils Windows AI Foundry for AI-powered PC apps

Microsoft is replacing 'Copilot Runtime' with Windows AI Foundry to help developers build, experiment, and reach users with AI experiences in their apps. Windows AI Foundry will not only include Microsoft's model but other open-source models as well, including those from Nvidia, such as NVIDIA NIM. With these models, developers can integrate new AI experiences and models in their applications. "In addition, Windows AI Foundry offers ready-to-use AI APIs that are powered by Windows inbox models on Copilot+ PCs for key language and vision tasks, like text intelligence, image description, text recognition, custom prompt and object erase," Microsoft announced in a blog post. "We are announcing new capabilities like LoRA (low-rank-adaption) for finetuning our inbox SLM, Phi Silica, with custom data. We are also announcing new APIs for semantic search and knowledge retrieval so developers can build natural language search and RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) scenarios in their apps w ... Read full article.