Intel’s AI Playground app shows what’s possible with Core Ultra [Video]

One of the problems with AI apps that run locally on the PC…is a lack of apps that run locally on the PC. To solve that problem, Intel released AI Playground, a one-stop shop to run apps specifically on a Core Ultra.

Dan Rogers, who runs Intel’s client performance marketing lab, highlighted the app at Intel’s Berlin launch of its Core Ultra Series 2 or “Lunar Lake” processor. which now has enough TOPS to qualify as a Copilot+ PC.

The free app can be downloaded from Github and includes helpful features like AI picture generation, a chatbot, and the ability to enhance photos you’ve taken. It will apparently require a Core Ultra PC, not surprisingly. It’s not clear whether it will run on a PC with equal AI capabilities, such as a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite.

Rogers showed off two capabilities in a brief demo: an AI art generator, and a local language model. It’s not clear as to how …