[Prompt API] Feedback for the Prompt API developer preview in Microsoft Edge

[captainbrosset]

Thanks for trying out the Prompt API. Please use this thread to tell us about your use-cases for built-in SLMs, provide feedback about the model and API design, challenges and considerations, etc. We'd love to understand how to improve the Prompt API in Edge to meet your needs!

[adiazcan]

Hello Team!

First, you implemented a great feature!!!

I have a new Surface Laptop 7th Edition with an ARM chip and a Qualcomm Adreno GPU with 8Gb, but I have a "The device's GPU is not supported" message on the device performance page.

Why is it not supported? I think I have the minimum requirements.

Thanks for your support.

[sohchatt]

@adiazcan apologies for the late reply.

Your Surface Laptop 7 is, indeed, capable of supporting the Prompt API. Unfortunately, there is a known issues with Qualcomm driver version 31.0.84.0 (I suspect this is what you have; you can check your driver version at edge://gpu > GL_RENDERER). Qualcomm's next driver update (version 31.0.96.0) is yet to be made broadly available via Windows Update.

If you're okay with testing out a pre-release version of the driver, you can install it from Qualcomm's website: https://softwarecenter.qualcomm.com/catalog/item/Windows_Graphics_Driver?osArch=ARM64&osType=Windows (Note that this is intended for developer testing and comes with some risk).

For what it's worth, I have the same device as you, ran into the same issue, and have been testing QC driver 31.0.96.0, and the Prompt API works for me.