Why Windows is the best place for AI development

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Windows ships a runtime and library that expose Windows Copilot Runtime APIs to use 40+ on-device models for studio effects, light transcription, OCR and recall; it includes a Vector Embeddings API and RAG API for app-owned indexes while the Windows semantic index remains private. Phi Silica is a low‑latency model optimized for Copilot PC NPUs. Web developers get WebNN via DirectML and native PyTorch support so HuggingFace models run locally without ONNX conversion.

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1. 0:00Windows AI development intro
2. 0:32Windows Copilot Runtime
3. 1:57Copilot library and local models
4. 3:01Phi Silica and NPU optimization
5. 4:05Recall and semantic search
6. 5:29Developers and Recall
7. 6:54Web developers and WebNN
8. 7:57Custom models on Windows
9. 9:01Resources and next steps

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