Release Notes: Handheld Multi-Modal Application

Version 1.0.0

2026

This is the initial release of the application, therefore, it is a preview version.

New

The application has the following features:

• Scripts to build power-optimized OS with built-in drivers for hardware, for example, GPU, NPU, and Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV).

• Local LLM inference server

• Speech-to-text service

• Chat UI

• Metrics dashboard for all for AI services

Known issues

• When the virtual function is used for GPU, metrics in the Visual Pipeline and Platform Evaluation Tool are not available. The metrics are exposed correctly when the physical function is used.