Microsoft Joins the Local AI Push
Microsoft is clearly going all in on local AI running on your machine and working with cloud models only when it needs to use them.
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Key points
- Watching the Microsoft Windows and Surface laptop event turned out to be a lot more interesting than normal.
- 🕵️ Interested in building LLM Agents?
- 10:02 MXC: sandboxing agents in Windows
- 12:15 Why this matters for local AI
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- [1]Microsoft Joins the Local AI PushSam Witteveen (YouTube) · Oct 8, 03:00 PM
Microsoft is clearly going all in on local AI running on your machine and working with cloud models only when it needs to use them.
Watching the Microsoft Windows and Surface laptop event turned out to be a lot more interesting than normal.
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