Intel AI Playground Outs 32GB Arc GPU That Could Be Big Battlemage

Intel has released version 3.0 of its AI Playground tool, which brings new multimodal upgrades to the app's functionality thanks to modern vision models like Qwen3 VL as well as agentic tool calling support that allows users to orchestrate actions across different tools and features from within a single chat flow. Instead of completely separate UI for image generation, chat, et cetera, the AI can invoke them in context as part of a unified agentic session. There's also speech input support and a fully rearchitected UX in the preview build, which remains open source, as before.

That's not what we're here to talk about, though. After all, this is HotHardware, not HotSoftware. Buried in the user guide was an image that has since been replaced, but which was thankfully archived by hardware enthusiast Haze (@Haze2K1 on Xwitter). Check it out and see if you notice ...