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🚀 AI Toolkit for VS Code — February 2026 Update

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junjieli
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Feb 13, 2026

Going from idea → code → debug → evaluate → deploy, without leaving your editor.

February brings a major milestone for AI Toolkit. Version 0.30.0 is packed with new capabilities that make agent development more discoverable, debuggable, and production-ready—from a brand-new Tool ...
Published Feb 13, 2026
Version 1.0
agent support
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ai
ai foundry
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shawncic
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Feb 17, 2026

what does "Added Qualcomm GPU recipes" even mean?  Is there a repo that I can check to look up how this might impact me?  Kinda ambiguous. 

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Feb 26, 2026

Thanks for reaching. This means we support additional model conversions on Qualcomm GPUs through AITK model conversion (see details: Convert a model with AI Toolkit for VS Code). you can follow the instruction to convert models from Hugging Face and inference on your windows devices powered by NPUs, GPUs, and CPUs.