Phi Silica task specialization using LoRA in Microsoft Learning Zone: A technical deep dive

At Build 2025, we announced support for LoRA (low-rank-adaptation) finetuning 

Microsoft’s Copilot Plus features might arrive on desktop PCs later this year

Intel’s Arrow Lake Refresh chips might deliver enough NPU performance for Copilot Plus features. The chips are rumored to launch later this year.

1.8.0 Experimental 2 (1.8.250515001-experimental2) 🧪 · microsoft WindowsAppSDK · Discussion #5435

Windows App SDK 1.8 Experimental 2 introduces exciting new features designed to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to your products with the power of Phi Silica and Windows AI APIs. ImportantThis r...

Adding local AI to Windows apps is super easy

With Microsoft //Build right around the corner there is little wonder about what will be the major theme of the show… AI. But if you’ve been paying attention you know the cat is already…

Use Windows AI in Your WPF Application

With the rise of Copilot+ PCs that have a neural processing unit (NPU), you as a developer get new possibilities to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) in your Windows desktop applications. Instead of consuming a cloud-based AI model, you can use local AI models. In this…

Adding AI in your apps with the Windows Copilot Runtime APIs - Bruno Sonnino

The latest versions of the Windows App SDK (1.7 Experimental 3 and 1.8 Experimental 1) introduce a powerful new feature to elevate your apps: the Windows Copilot Runtime (WCR) APIs. This set of APIs lets you integrate AI into your apps without the hassle of downloading models, fine-tuning them, or working with complicated interfaces. With

Enabling multimodal functionality for Phi Silica

Introduction Expanding on the breakthrough efficiencies of Phi Silica, Microsoft’s state-of-the-art on-device small language mo

Using Phi Silica in Windows App SDK on a Copilot Plus PC | Strathweb. A free flowing tech monologue.

Enabling multimodal functionality for Phi Silica on Windows 11 Copilot+ PC

Windows Experience Blog: Introduction Expanding on the breakthrough efficiencies of Phi Silica, Microsoft’s state-of-the-art on-device small language model (SLM), this blog shows how we added vision-based multimodal capabilities to it. This additional dimension unlocks new possibilities for...