Windows AI Foundry

Welcome to the Microsoft AI Foundry on Windows Samples Repository. This repository contains C# samples for the Windows AI Foundry, a groundbreaking platform designed to empower developers with advanced AI capabilities on Windows across a broad spectrum of silicon. The Windows AI Foundry is built on three key pillars: Built-in Models, Ready-to-use Open Source Models, and Bring Your Own Model and this repo features samples for each category running on the Intel AI PC and Copilot+ PC's.

More information on Windows AI Foundry is available at: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ai/overview

Repository Contents

• Windows AI APIs (Built-in Models)

  • Phi silica
  • Text Recognition
  • Imaging: Image Super Resolution, Image Erase, Image Extraction

• Ready to Use Open Source Models Via Foundry Local

  • Application using Foundry Local for Inferencing

• Bring Your Own Model(BYOM)

  • Windows ML using Resnet50
  • Windows ML using clip-vit-base-patch32

• Microsoft AI Foundry App

  • This application demonstrates the complete Microsoft Foundry on Windows stack through a real-world technician assistant use case. It showcases how developers can integrate all three pillars of Microsoft Foundry on Windows: Windows AI APIs, Foundry Local, and Windows ML Inferencing APIs in a single, cohesive application.

Please note that there is also a Cloud to Client Migration Recipe detailing the key considerations when migrating workloads from cloud to client available at Cloud to Client

Software Pre-reqs

1. Install latest NPU drivers by downloading it from : https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/794734/intel-npu-driver-windows.html
2. Install latest Intel GPU Drivers using Intel® Driver & Support Assistant (Intel® DSA) available at : https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html
3. Install Visual Studio 2022 Community edition or higher with C++: Visual Studio 2022, selecting ".Net desktop Development" and “Desktop Development with C++” workloads.
4. Clone the samples repo by doing a git clone https://github.com/intel/Samples-for-Microsoft-AI-Foundry.git

Please note that each of the categories of samples might have additional software prereqs which will be listed in the readme for that category.

Hardware

• Intel® Core™ Ultra Processor Family

Getting help

If you have any questions or if you found any problems with this repository, please report through GitHub issues.