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Windows AI Studio Preview

by Jayakumark on 12/14/23, 4:42 AM with 68 comments

  • by blackoil on 12/14/23, 4:55 AM

    Windows AI Studio is in real a Linux AI Studio as it needs WSL to run. Little funny

  • by Jayakumark on 12/14/23, 4:48 AM

  • by davikr on 12/14/23, 1:58 PM

    Anyone knows when Microsoft will release a local OCR model officially? I haven't seen anyone talking about this, but the one they're shipping with Snipping Tool (OneOcr) is top-tier and beats everything out there like Tesseract, easyOCR etc.

    The model is technically in everyone's Windows installs, but we don't have the C++ projected WinRT headers to use the Microsoft.Windows.Vision library.

  • by andruby on 12/14/23, 5:09 AM

    Apple has good uniform hardware to enable this, but they are a product company and an “AI studio” would not fit their usual definition of a product.

    I do hope they are considering going in that direction though.

  • by Const-me on 12/14/23, 8:11 AM

    > will run only on NVIDIA GPUs for the preview

    I wonder why Microsoft helps nVidia, instead of using their own technology?

    Here’s an example: https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml

  • by DeathArrow on 12/14/23, 9:37 AM

    Microsoft also has a nice AI/ML framework called ML.NET.

  • by a1o on 12/14/23, 11:58 AM

    Curious it uses Ubuntu 18.04 with 20.04 and 22.04 already released and 24.04 just around the corner.

  • by ourmandave on 12/14/23, 12:17 PM

    RAG Project

    Coming soon!

    =(

  • by franzb on 12/14/23, 8:54 AM

    Why is this on GitHub?

  • by mngdtt on 12/14/23, 11:54 AM

    Installed this, and it didn't let me do anything. Despite the fact the readme says stuff runs locally, first it asked me to link to my github account, and then all models required me to ask someone (I think meta?) for permission on github or use a huggingface token or whatever.

    So I uninstalled it and now my wsl prompt starts with (base) and I don't know how to disable it and all my python scripts are broken because they can't find all the libraries I've installed from pip throughout the years.

    0/10 would not recommend.