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Windows ML is Microsoft's local machine learning runtime integrated into Windows 11, enabling AI inference directly on device hardware. Discussions cover how Windows ML is serviced through Windows Update, with updates like KB5103225 for Intel OpenVINO, KB5096142 for NVIDIA TensorRT-RTX, and KB5096141 for AMD MIGraphX execution providers. These updates treat AI acceleration as a core OS component rather than a separate add-on. At Build 2026, Microsoft positioned Windows ML as part of a broader shift toward local AI agents and secure AI platforms, moving beyond Copilot+ branding to support diverse hardware including CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs. The tag reflects the evolution of Windows into an AI runtime environment where machine learning is a serviced, platform-level capability.
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    NVIDIA DIN Deploy: Run Local AI Models on Windows with ONNX Runtime and TensorRT RTX

    NVIDIA has published DIN Deploy, short for "Do Inference Now." It's an open-source set of C++ samples that shows how to run AI models locally on Windows and Linux PCs without building a separate inference engine for each model. The samples combine Microsoft's ONNX Runtime (ORT) with NVIDIA's...
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    Windows App SDK 1.8.12 Final Update Fixes Unavailable Arm64 ML Providers

    On September 24, 2026, Microsoft released Windows App SDK 1.8.12 (NuGet package 1.8.260921001), the last servicing update for the 1.8 line. It contains one fix: on certain Arm64 devices, Windows ML could list an AI execution provider that the app had no way to actually acquire. This is a small...
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    KB5128776 Updates NVIDIA TensorRT-RTX to 2.2609.1.0 for Windows 11

    Microsoft released KB5128776 on September 22, 2026. It moves the NVIDIA TensorRT-RTX Execution Provider, the Windows ML component that runs ONNX AI models on GeForce RTX GPUs, to version 2.2609.1.0 on Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2. Windows Update installs it automatically, and it replaces KB5121777...
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    KB5128778 Updates AMD MIGraphX to 2.2609.2.0 for Windows 11 26H1

    Microsoft released KB5128778 on September 22, 2026. It updates the AMD MIGraphX Execution Provider, the Windows ML component that sends supported ONNX model work to AMD GPUs, to version 2.2609.2.0 on Windows 11 version 26H1, all editions. It installs automatically through Windows Update and...
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    KB5079063 Updates Windows 11 ML Providers Across Five Vendors

    Microsoft updated its "History of AI updates" page, KB 5079063, on September 22, 2026. The update adds new execution provider builds for AMD MIGraphX, AMD Vitis, Intel OpenVINO, Nvidia TensorRT-RTX and Qualcomm QNN on Windows 11 versions 26H1, 24H2 and 25H2. The Copilot+ PC-only AI components...
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    Windows on ARM Just Crossed a Line: The August 27 Updates Turn Windows 11 Into an AI Platform

    Windows 11 on Qualcomm hardware is now servicing the local-AI path as a set of distinct platform components: the Qualcomm QNN Execution Provider update KB5123777, Phi Silica update KB5124879, and the separate .NET Framework cumulative update KB5122385 appeared in the late-August update cycle...
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    HP AI PCs Reach 44% of Shipments, Not Proven AI Adoption

    HP says AI PCs reached 44% of its total compute shipments in its fiscal second quarter, up from more than 35% in the prior quarter. The figure, highlighted again this week by HP Southern and Central Africa managing director Yesh Surjoodeen in an interview with ITWeb TV, is real—but it does not...
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    Windows 11 Becomes an AI OS: Local Runtime, Agents, and New Developer APIs

    Microsoft is using Windows 11, Windows ML, Foundry Local, Copilot agents, and new developer tooling announced around Build 2026 to move AI from a cloud add-on into the operating system’s local runtime, security model, application APIs, and everyday user interface. The change is bigger than...
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    KB5103225: Windows Update Boosts Intel OpenVINO Windows ML Runtime (2.2606.1.0)

    Microsoft has published KB5103225, an automatic Windows Update package for Windows 11 version 24H2 and 25H2 devices with the latest cumulative update installed, updating the Windows ML Runtime Intel OpenVINO Execution Provider to version 2.2606.1.0 for accelerated local AI inference on Intel...
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    Microsoft Build 2026: Windows AI shifts from Copilot+ PCs to local agents on any hardware

    At Microsoft Build 2026, held this week in San Francisco, Microsoft shifted its Windows AI pitch away from the Copilot+ PC brand and toward local agents and models that can run across CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, and new Nvidia-powered developer hardware. That is not the death of AI on PCs; it is the...
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    Build 2026: Microsoft Windows Becomes a Secure Platform for AI Agents

    At Build 2026 in San Francisco, Microsoft used its developer keynote to pitch Windows as a secure home for autonomous AI agents, announcing Microsoft Execution Containers, native OpenClaw support, Project Solara concept devices, and RTX Spark-powered Surface hardware. The message was less “here...
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    KB5096142 Updates NVIDIA TensorRT-RTX Execution Provider for Windows 11 24H2/25H2

    Microsoft has published KB5096142, an automatic Windows Update package that updates the Nvidia TensorRT-RTX Execution Provider to version 2.2605.1.0 for Windows 11 version 24H2 and Windows 11 version 25H2 systems with the latest cumulative update installed. The update is small in presentation...
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    KB5096138 Windows 11 26H1 Updates Intel OpenVINO Execution Provider for Local AI

    Microsoft has published KB5096138, an automatic Windows Update package released May 26, 2026, that updates the Intel OpenVINO Execution Provider to version 2.2605.1.0 for Windows 11 version 26H1 devices with the latest cumulative update installed. The update is small on paper, but it points to a...
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    KB5096137: Update Qualcomm QNN Execution Provider on Windows 11 26H1 PCs

    Microsoft has published KB5096137, an automatic Windows Update package that updates the Qualcomm QNN Execution Provider to version 2.2605.2.0 for Windows 11, version 26H1 devices with the latest cumulative update installed. It is a small-sounding component refresh with an outsized strategic...
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    KB5096139 Updates Nvidia TensorRT-RTX AI Inference in Windows 11 26H1

    Microsoft has published KB5096139, an automatic Windows Update package for Windows 11 version 26H1 that updates the Nvidia TensorRT-RTX Execution Provider to version 2.2605.1.0 for systems with the latest 26H1 cumulative update installed. The dry support-note wording hides a bigger story...
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    KB5096141 Updates AMD MIGraphX Execution Provider via Windows Update

    Microsoft has published KB5096141, an automatic Windows Update package that updates the AMD MIGraphX Execution Provider to version 2.2605.1.0 for Windows 11 version 26H1 devices with the latest cumulative update installed. The dry support note looks minor, but the delivery mechanism is the real...
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    KB5096136 Updates AMD Vitis AI Execution Provider for Windows 11 26H1

    Microsoft has published KB5096136, an automatic Windows Update package for Windows 11 version 26H1 devices that updates the AMD Vitis AI Execution Provider to version 2.2605.2.0, replacing April’s KB5089175 and appearing in Update history as a Windows Runtime ML AMD NPU Execution Provider...
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    KB5096140 Updates Intel OpenVINO Execution Provider for Windows 11 AI Acceleration

    Microsoft has published KB5096140, an automatic Windows Update package for Windows 11 version 24H2 and 25H2 that updates the Intel OpenVINO Execution Provider to version 2.2605.1.0 for Windows ML and ONNX Runtime workloads. The update is small in presentation but strategically large in meaning...
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    KB5096138: Microsoft Updates Intel OpenVINO Execution Provider via Windows Update

    Microsoft has published KB5096138, an automatic Windows Update package for Windows 11 version 26H1 that updates the Intel OpenVINO Execution Provider to version 2.2605.1.0, provided the device already has the latest cumulative update installed before the AI component is offered. That sentence is...
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    KB5089169 Updates AMD Vitis AI Execution Provider for Windows 11 24H2/25H2

    KB5089169 Brings AMD Vitis AI Execution Provider Update 2.2604.1.0 to Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 Microsoft has published KB5089169, an update for the AMD Vitis AI Execution Provider component on supported Windows 11 systems. The update is listed as AMD Vitis AI Execution Provider update version...