Intel introduced the AI ​​Playground last June, as part of Computex 2024. However, its announcement was, for obvious reasons, somewhat overshadowed by other announcements with much more impact, such as the long-awaited official introduction of Intel Lunar Lake, which, as you already know, is the first integrated to have an NPU for tasks related to artificial intelligence . As we already told you, the sum of the CPU, GPU and NPU of these integrated devices is capable of providing up to 120 TOP AI performance.

One of the strengths of generative artificial intelligence is related to creating and editing images, although it’s true that this variant requires more computing power than other uses we’ve seen before, such as text generation in chatbots running locally. However, with the latest generation of hardware and optimized models, we have already started to see very competent solutions in this regard.

Although there are generic applications that are compatible with any hardware, there is no doubt that optimizing specific software for specific components will always give better results in terms of performance. As a clear example of this, we have NVIDIA’s ChatRTX and other similar developments. And precisely in this category we find Intel AI Playground, the most promising proposal for users of dedicated Intel Arc graphics cards and integrated Intel Core Ultra-H graphics cards with built-in Intel Arc GPU.

As we could already see in the demo at Computex 2024, AI Playground lets you create and enhance images with AI from text prompts, that is, what we have already seen with several services, but with the fundamental difference that in this case all actions are performed exclusively on the user’s computer. And for those who want to have a local chatbot, this app also includes one in the “Answer” section.

For such purposes, AI Playground has a very simple interface designed for all types of usersand allows the use of different models. For more advanced users, it also offers the possibility of multiple adjustments to their settings and applications, thanks to which the results will be much more in line with our preferences.

So if you have an Intel Arc dedicated graphics card with 8GB or more, You can now download the beta version of AI Playground from this page for more information about him. The version for computers with integrated Intel Core Ultra-H will arrive soon, as we can see on the same page.