Windows AI Platform

DirectML: Accelerating AI on Windows, now with NPUs

December 14, 2023 Dec 14, 2023 12/14/23

Chad Pralle

We are thrilled to announce our collaboration with Intel®, one of our key partners, to bring the first Neural Processing Unit (NPU) powered by DirectML on Windows. AI is transforming the world, driving innovation, and creating value across industries. NPUs are critical components in enabling amazing AI experiences for developers and consumers...

Boost Your Gen AI Experience with our DirectML extension for Automatic1111’s WebUI

November 30, 2023 Nov 30, 2023 11/30/23

Jacques van Rhyn, Anirban Roy

Olive is a powerful open-source Microsoft tool to optimize ONNX models for DirectML. You may remember from this year’s Build that we showcased Olive support for Stable Diffusion, a cutting-edge Generative AI model that creates images from text. We didn’t want to stop there, since many users access Stable Diffusion through Automatic1111'...

Announcing preview support for Llama 2 in DirectML

November 15, 2023 Nov 15, 2023 11/15/23

Jacques van Rhyn, Patrice Vignola

At Inspire this year we talked about how developers will be able to run Llama 2 on Windows with DirectML and the ONNX Runtime and we've been hard at work to make this a reality. We now have a sample showing our progress with Llama 2 7B! See https://github.com/microsoft/Olive/tree/main/examples/directml/llama_v2 This sample relies on ...

DirectML at Build 2023

May 25, 2023 May 25, 2023 05/25/23

Adele Parsons

DirectML shared some exciting announcements at Build this year! We demonstrated a few awesome demos and highlighted new capabilities during the Windows AI Breakout session, Deliver AI-powered experiences across cloud and edge, with Windows. We are also excited to announce the launch of our new product landing page! This new product page ...

Adobe Premiere Pro leverages DirectML on new AI Silicon

May 24, 2023 May 24, 2023 05/24/23

Jonah Dykhuizen

DirectML is ushering in a new wave of machine learning integration capabilities on emerging AI silicon. At the Windows AI Breakout BUILD session, we showcased how ONNX Runtime, powered by DirectML, enables Adobe’s Premiere Pro to leverage Intel’s next generation platform, Meteor Lake with integrated VPU.    Adobe Premiere Pro ...

Optimize DirectML performance with Olive

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23

Adele Parsons

Are you ready to revolutionize the way you optimize your AI models? Say hello to Olive (ONNX Live), the advanced model optimization tool that integrates seamlessly with DirectML for hardware acceleration across the breadth of the Windows ecosystem.  With Olive, you can easily incorporate cutting-edge techniques like model compression, ...

DirectML ❤ Stable Diffusion

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23

Jacques van Rhyn

Text-to-image models are amazing tools that can transform natural language into stunning images. Stable Diffusion is particularly interesting. The base model can create images from text and since it’s open-source developers can customize it for their own needs and preferences. With some extra training, developers can fine-tune their model to...

Transformer support for PyTorch with DirectML is here!

December 6, 2022 Dec 6, 2022 12/6/22

Adele Parsons

The latest release of PyTorch with DirectML is available today! This release brings support for training popular Transformer Models like GPT2, BERT, and Detection Transformers. To get started with training Transformer Models using PyTorch with DirectML, you can find a new sample on the DirectML GitHub. The sample covers training a PyTorch ...

Real-Time Image Blurring & DirectX Resource Binding in the Windows ML Samples Gallery

September 29, 2022 Sep 29, 2022 09/29/22

Linnea May, Numfor Mbiziwo-Tiapo

Last November, we announced the release of the Windows ML Samples Gallery. The newest release of the gallery adds 4 new samples, 2 of which are discussed in detail below.    Real-Time Background Image Blurring  Linnea May   Real-time machine learning inference is a hot topic in ML, with applications such as real-time object ...

DirectML Plugin for TensorFlow 2 is here

June 22, 2022 Jun 22, 2022 06/22/22

Jonah Dykhuizen

Last October we announced our generally consumable DirectML backend for TensorFlow 1.15. Since then, our team worked to bring machine learning training acceleration to TensorFlow 2. Today, we are happy to announce the release of our DirectML PluggableDevice preview package for TensorFlow on PyPI. Alongside our release, we are excited to ...