AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code overview

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This documentation has moved. For the latest cross-platform guidance, see AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code.

The AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code is a VS Code extension that helps developers build generative AI applications locally. It provides access to AI models from the Microsoft Foundry catalog, Hugging Face, and additional catalogs. It also offers tools for downloading, fine-tuning, and deploying models on your local machine or NPU-enabled devices.

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The Deepseek R1 Distilled model is optimized for the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) and available to download on Snapdragon powered Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11. For more information, see Running Distilled DeepSeek R1 models locally on Copilot+ PCs, powered by Windows AI Foundry.

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• Developing Responsible Generative AI Applications and Features on Windows
• Model catalog and collections in Microsoft Foundry portal
• AI Dev Gallery
• Windows AI API samples