Tech Apr 13, 2026 9 min Microsoft Ships Foundry Local GA: A ~20MB Native Library That Bundles Local AI Into Any App Foundry Local is a local AI runtime that embeds into apps via package managers as a ~20MB native library. Built on ONNX Runtime with automatic GPU/NPU selection, it runs Phi, Qwen, Mistral and more offline through an OpenAI-compatible API. Microsoft Local LLM Azure AI Foundry ONNX Runtime Windows ML
