AI-Playground-v1.01b-dGPU

AI Playground Beta Desktop Windows Installer. This is an updated beta version of AI Playground, packaged as a Windows installer for Intel Arc GPUs discrete with 8GB+ of VRAM.

Features:

• Run a variety of AI capabilities locally using your Intel Arc GPU
• Text To Image Generation using either SD1.5 and SDXL Checkpoint, Models and LoRAs
• Image to Image Generation with support for; Upscaling, Upscaling with Variation, Image to Image Generation with Variance, Inpainting, and Outpainting
• Chatbot with RAG Embeddings to search, summarize, stylize generalized knowledge from an LLM model or from local text content.
• Model swapping of PyTorch LLM, SD1.5, and SDXL models
• Multi-Language support, Chinese language added (via PR from user @Nuullll)

Fixes and updates:

• Fixes online installer causing issues with LLM after 8/05/24
• Updated some components version, for increased security
• Fix for port conflicts on static port 9999
• Code and UX fixes via community support requests

Known Issues & Workaround

• Some systems may hang on Loading Screen and can be resolved by installing VS C++ redist https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170
• Python installation process can take more than 10 minutes or be hung by a poor internet connection. Resetting wifi or restarting install has been known to fix
• System level Python installs, not part of a virtual environment, may interfere AI Playground Python and causing the app not to start.
• First run of AI Chatbot in Answer may hang. Restarting fixes and issue is generally not seen again
• Generating HTML code from Answers may not render in the viewport, but do display in the console

NOTE:
This version will not run on Intel Core Ultra. Intel Core Ultra version will be available as a separate installer