Intel was among the first GPU vendors to introduce dedicated generative AI software. Their AI Playground software, optimised for Intel Arc GPUs and integrated graphics solutions is described as an “AI HUB,” as it can run chat-based Large Language Models (LLMs) in addition to generating images. While widely praised for its user-friendliness, AI Playground's limitation to Intel hardware has been a drawback for some.

However, the accessibility of AI Playground might be expanding soon. Intel has recently released the source code, making AI Playground open source, allowing developers to download, customise, and contribute to the codebase. This should hopefully expand support to other hardware that's not developed by Intel.

Intel AI Playground is described as an AI PC software that enables AI picture generation, image styling, and chatbots on a PC with an Intel Arc GPU. AI Playground makes use of libraries from GitHub and Huggingface, but note that some may not be available in all locations worldwide.

AI Playground supports several Gen AI libraries and models, including image diffusion options like Stable Diffusion 1.5, SDXL, Flux.1-Schnell, and LTX-Video, as well as LLM options such as Safetensor PyTorch LLMs for DeepSeek R1 models, Phi3, Qwen2, Mistral, and GGUF, OpenVINO TinyLlama, Mistral 7B, Phi3 mini, and Phi3.5 small.

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