AI for Windows apps

Learn how to take advantage of state-of-the-art local models, NPU hardware, and remote APIs to make your apps smarter than ever before.

Introducing AI for Windows

Get started

• FAQs about using AI on Windows
• Get started using AI-backed APIs locally or in the cloud
• Get started using ML models in your app
• Responsible Generative AI Development on Windows
• AI on Windows Sample Gallery
• Our principles for using AI-generated content on Microsoft Learn

Writing apps using local AI models

How-To Guide

• Copilot+ PCs Developer Guide
• Web Neural Network API (WebNN) Overview
• Get started with WebNN with Windows
• DirectML expands NPU support to Copilot+ PCs and WebNN
• Find pre-built ML models
• AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code overview

Windows Copilot Runtime

Concept

• Overview of Windows Copilot Runtime
• Phi Silica API - Small Language Model with reasoning and language understanding
• Text Recognition API (Optical Character Recognition / OCR)
• Recall API - Retrieval of past activities for user to continue where they left off
• Studio Effects - NPU-accelerated camera and microphone AI effects

Other Windows AI tools

Overview

• Build cutting-edge, market-ready AI applications.
• Develop AI apps with .NET
• Introducing Microsoft.Extensions.AI Preview
• Introduction to Semantic Kernel
• OpenAI basic samples

DirectML for hardware-accelerated Machine Learning

Overview

• DirectML Overview
• Get started with DirectML
• DirectML Version History
• DirectML developer tools
• Sample applications

DirectML Programming Guide

How-To Guide

• Binding in DirectML
• UAV barriers and resource state barriers
• Resource lifetime and synchronization
• Using strides to express padding, memory layout
• Using fused operators to improve performance
• Troubleshooting - using the debug layer
• Troubleshooting - Handling errors and device removal

DirectML support for PyTorch or WebNN

Concept

• Enable PyTorch with DirectML on Windows
• Enable PyTorch with DirectML on WSL 2
• DirectML expands NPU support to Copilot+ PCs and WebNN

DirectML API Reference

Reference

• DirectML interfaces
• DirectML functions
• DirectML structures
• DirectML enumerations
• DirectML constants

Additional resources

Concept

• Microsoft AI learning hub
• Microsoft Copilot learning hub
• Microsoft Responsible AI
• Microsoft AI Show Live