AI-Playground-v1.21b

AI Playground Beta v1.21v Installer. This is the October 2024 release of AI Playground for Windows with support of the new Intel Core Ultra 200V series processors, code named Lunar Lake (LNL).

Features:

• Existing features of AI Playground 1.01b PLUS
• New Theme UI - (For Intel Core Ultra 200V only)
• New LLM selector prepopulated with 3 model options for download (Phi3-mini-4k-instruct, Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct, Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3)
• New Conversation Manager to save and store chat session
• Font Size Tool: increase or decrease the font size in the Answer section.
• New Aspect Ratio selector to more easily select the appropriate resolutions for specific aspect ratios
• Multi-Language support now adding Korean with existing support for English and Chinese for the UI
• Stable Diffusion 1.5 SafetyChecker warning for images flagged by safety checker
• Resizable Window

Fixes and updates:

• Automated VC++ Redistributable installer for systems missing needed DLLs
• Exception handing, providing error and log for issues starting up AI Playground
• Port Selector - will automatically choose a free port, if default is used
• Notification pop-up when selecting HD mode, alerting of generation times on systems with low VRAM
• Smaller installer footprint - IPEX files now pulled from source

Known Issues & Workaround

• Some existing installations of VC++ may not have needed DLLs. If error on load screen we suggest installing the 64bit VS C++ redist https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170
• Python installation process can take more than 10 minutes or be hung by a poor internet connection. Resetting wifi or restarting install has been known to fix
• System level Python installs, not part of a virtual environment, may interfere AI Playground Python and causing the app not to start.
• First run of AI Chatbot in Answer may be very long or hang. Restarting fixes and issue is generally not seen again
• Generating HTML code from Answers may not render in the viewport, but do display in the console

NOTE:
download the appropriate executable for your target hardware

AI-Playground-v1.01b-MTL-H

AI Playground Beta Intel Core Ultra-H Installer. This is the initial launch version of AI Playground, packaged as a Windows installer for systems with an Intel® Core™ Ultra-H Processor with built-in Intel® Arc™ GPU.

Features:

• Run a variety of AI capabilities locally using your Intel Arc GPU
• Text To Image Generation using either SD1.5 and SDXL Checkpoint, Models and LoRAs
• Image to Image Generation with support for; Upscaling, Upscaling with Variation, Image to Image Generation with Variance, Inpainting, and Outpainting
• Chatbot with RAG Embeddings to search, summarize, stylize generalized knowledge from an LLM model or from local text content.
• Model swapping of PyTorch LLM, SD1.5, and SDXL models
• Multi-Language support, Chinese language added (via PR from user @Nuullll)

Fixes and updates:

• Fixes online installer causing issues with LLM after 8/05/24
• Updated some components version, for increased security
• Fix for port conflicts on static port 9999
• Code and UX fixes via community support requests

Known Issues & Workaround

• Some systems may hang on Loading Screen and can be resolved by installing VS C++ redist https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170
• Python installation process can take more than 10 minutes or be hung by a poor internet connection. Resetting wifi or restarting install has been known to fix
• System level Python installs, not part of a virtual environment, may interfere AI Playground Python and causing the app not to start.
• First run of AI Chatbot in Answer may be very long or hang. Restarting fixes and issue is generally not seen again
• Generating HTML code from Answers may not render in the viewport, but do display in the console
• SDXL image generation on many Intel Core Ultra systems may take exceedingly long due to the size of SDXL models which may be near or exceed the shared memory available to the built-in GPU
• Issues sighted with when system has an additional dGPU - work-around/fix in process

NOTE:
This version will not run on other Intel Arc GPUs, this will only run on the built-in GPUs for Intel Core Ultra-H systems

AI-Playground-v1.01b-dGPU

AI Playground Beta Desktop Windows Installer. This is an updated beta version of AI Playground, packaged as a Windows installer for Intel Arc GPUs discrete with 8GB+ of VRAM.

Features:

• Run a variety of AI capabilities locally using your Intel Arc GPU
• Text To Image Generation using either SD1.5 and SDXL Checkpoint, Models and LoRAs
• Image to Image Generation with support for; Upscaling, Upscaling with Variation, Image to Image Generation with Variance, Inpainting, and Outpainting
• Chatbot with RAG Embeddings to search, summarize, stylize generalized knowledge from an LLM model or from local text content.
• Model swapping of PyTorch LLM, SD1.5, and SDXL models
• Multi-Language support, Chinese language added (via PR from user @Nuullll)

Fixes and updates:

• Fixes online installer causing issues with LLM after 8/05/24
• Updated some components version, for increased security
• Fix for port conflicts on static port 9999
• Code and UX fixes via community support requests

Known Issues & Workaround

• Some systems may hang on Loading Screen and can be resolved by installing VS C++ redist https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170
• Python installation process can take more than 10 minutes or be hung by a poor internet connection. Resetting wifi or restarting install has been known to fix
• System level Python installs, not part of a virtual environment, may interfere AI Playground Python and causing the app not to start.
• First run of AI Chatbot in Answer may hang. Restarting fixes and issue is generally not seen again
• Generating HTML code from Answers may not render in the viewport, but do display in the console

NOTE:
This version will not run on Intel Core Ultra. Intel Core Ultra version will be available as a separate installer

AI-Playground-v1.0b-dGPU

AI Playground Beta Desktop Windows Installer. This is the initial launch beta version of AI Playground, packaged as a Windows installer for Intel Arc GPUs discrete with 8GB+ of VRAM.

Not recommended for installation after 08/5/24

Features:

• Run a variety of AI capabilities locally using your Intel Arc GPU
• Text To Image Generation using either SD1.5 and SDXL Checkpoint, Models and LoRAs
• Image to Image Generation with support for; Upscaling, Upscaling with Variation, Image to Image Generation with Variance, Inpainting, and Outpainting
• Chatbot with RAG Embeddings to search, summarize, stylize generalized knowledge from an LLM model or from local text content.
• Model swapping of PyTorch LLM, SD1.5, and SDXL models

Known Issues & Workaround

• Online installer issues run after 8/5/24, resulting in errors with LLM - fix in next release
• Python installation process can take more than 10 minutes or be hung by a poor internet connection. Resetting wifi or restarting install has been known to fix
• System level Python installs, not part of a virtual environment, may interfere AI Playground Python and causing the app not to start.
• First run of AI Chatbot in Answer may hang. Restarting fixes and issue is generally not seen again
• Generating HTML code from Answers may not render in the viewport, but do display in the console

NOTE:
This version will not run on Intel Core Ultra. Intel Core Ultra version will be available as a separate installer

AI Playground, version 01.0b does not include the latest functional and security updates. AI Playground, version 01.01b is targeted to be released mid-August and will include additional functional and security updates. Customers should update to the latest version as it becomes available._