There's a moment in every AI-powered product where the question shifts from "can I get a model to respond?" to "can I ship this to real users?" That's the gap Foundry Local closes. It runs optimized AI models directly on your customer's hardware, across GPUs, NPUs, and CPUs, with no cloud dependency and no Azure subscription required. And with t...

Foundry Local is a high-performance local AI runtime stack that brings Azure AI Foundry’s power to client devices. Foundry Local lets you build and ship cross-platform AI apps that run models with acceleration on a wide range of hardware. The Evolution of AI Acceleration On-device AI has progressed rapidly. Early workloads ran on CPUs, but perf...