AI Playground, a locally controlled and easy-to-use AI app that puts image creation, editing, and AI-powered answers at the fingertips of anyone with an Intel Arc dGPU with 8 GB of memory or more (and, soon, Intel Core Ultra-H processors), is now available for download, Intel has announced. The new app, which Intel began teasing last month, is optimized to take advantage of Intel Xe-cores and the purpose-built AI XMX engines in Intel Arc GPUs.
Links from Intel:
| User Manual | Download |
| For Intel Arc dGPU 8GB+ | Release Notes | Download |
| For Intel Core Ultra-H | Coming Soon |
| Source Code and Repo | Visit |
| Community/Support | First Join Intel Insiders Discord Al Playground Discord Channel |
Key features of AI Playground include:
- “Easy To Use: AI Playground is designed to be easy to use, allowing you to get working with AI quickly. From the start AI Playground will prompt you if and when a model is needed for a tasking, allowing you to download one, or provide your own. And our settings are written and designed using terms that make sense for the task without you having to be educated on AI just to use AI.”
- “Flexible: Advanced users can install their favorite models and tweak manual settings, to configure AI Playground to work the way they want it to work.”
- “Local: AI Playground is locally run, therefore your prompts, and the output never leave your computer. This provides you privacy and control of your content and input for working with AI, and puts you in control without an upstream entity over your shoulder censoring your prompts or capturing your data and content.”
- “Open: AI Playground is also an open-source project where our community can clone, fork or help us address features and capabilities of the main repo.”
Some promo videos:
Intel on its new AI app:
AI Playground beta is a free to download and use AI PC starter app, that makes AI easy on Intel Arc GPUs. AI Playground provides a variety of easy-to-use AI capabilities to create and enhance images, or get answers from an AI chatbot, all running locally on your own PC powered by either an Intel Core Ultra-H processor or with an Intel Arc dGPU with at least 8GB of vRAM.