Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 1

Intro to Microsoft Visual Studio Code AI Toolkit

Richard Toland

Principal Architect, Developer & Owner - Perpetual Reality, LLC

Unlock the power of local AI development directly within your favorite editor! This session introduces the Microsoft Visual Studio Code AI Toolkit, a powerful extension designed to simplify running Small Language Models (SLMs) like Phi-3, Mistral, and Llama directly on your Windows machine. Forget complex setups and cloud dependencies for basic AI tasks; learn how this toolkit streamlines the process, enhancing privacy, speed, and developer workflow integration. We'll learn the best parts of running SLMs locally including security, data sensitivity, fine tuning, integration capabilities, and graphics card acceleration.