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by sixothree 165 days ago
I'm not sure I've ever heard of a single task that comes built into the system and uses the NPU.
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Remove background from an image. Summarize some text. OCR to select text or click links in a screenshot. Relighting and centering you in your webcam. Semantic search for images and files.

A lot of that is in the first party Mac and Windows apps.

Selecting text in a photo is a game changer. I love it.
Wasn’t built in OCR an amazing feature?

We probably could have done it years earlier. But when it showed up… wow.