Microsoft Developer puts offline AI to work building a VM

Clint Rutkas and Hamza Usmani demonstrate a large local model turning a Windows image into a bootable virtual machine.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Running a 120B model offline on Surface RTX Spark Dev Box with Intelligent Terminal

Hamza Usmani asks a locally running AI model to help automate virtual machine creation. By the end of Microsoft Developer's demonstration, a Windows setup screen is running inside Hyper-V, without sending the model's work to the cloud.

"Running a 120B model offline on Surface RTX Spark Dev Box with Intelligent Terminal" was the most watched of the channel's twelve uploads this week, reaching roughly 5,000 views. This is Microsoft's own product demonstration, with principal product manager Clint Rutkas joining senior product manager Usmani to show the hardware and terminal working together.

The useful detail is the step between asking and doing: the model proposes a reusable automation skill, which Usmani then tests against a folder containing a Windows image. He also opens the agent settings to show where custom endpoints and local models connect. Rutkas puts his interest plainly: "I'm a big advocate of reducing clicks, reducing things that would cause cognitive load."

Offline work runs through the rest of the week, too. Jason Farmer's "How to Run AI Agents at the Industrial Edge" explains an on-site virtual coworker that keeps operating when its cloud connection drops. That upload has the strongest daily momentum among the highlighted videos, alongside a cupcake-ordering agent walkthrough and the shorter "AI That Works Offline."

Across the catalogue, daily viewing is more than twice the channel's usual level, while subscribers grew modestly. Amazon Web Services is also having an elevated viewing day; Windows is quieter than usual. Microsoft Developer brought in roughly 1.9 million views over the week, the largest weekly total among the nearby company channels with comparable totals available.

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The videos drawing views on Microsoft Developer right now

How to Use Database Agents in Microsoft Fabric | Data Exposed3,649 views · 2026-10-29 Make Machines Smarter with Physical AI2,877 views · 2026-10-29 How to Run AI Agents at the Industrial Edge2,743 views · 2026-11-03 Stop wiring infrastructure, start building agents.2,493 views · 2026-10-29 Automation vs Physical AI2,201 views · 2026-10-30 What does it really take to ship an AI agent?1,067 views AI That Works Offline697 views

The numbers

Here is how Microsoft Developer's week looks across views, subscribers and new uploads.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Microsoft Developer

1,882,560

Amazon Web Services

1,508,993

Microsoft Copilot

1,161,751

Apple UK

157,885

Elgato

111,901

Chrome for Developers

99,859

Microsoft Surface

76,611

amazon

46,168

subscribers

701,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

109,139,288

views per day

564,222

typical day: 217,906

first-day views of each video posted this week

Running a 120B model offline on Surface…

2,751

How to Use Database Agents in Microsoft…

1,953

Make Machines Smarter with Physical AI

1,908

How to Run AI Agents at the Industrial …

2,275

Stop wiring infrastructure, start build…

1,584

Automation vs Physical AI

1,486

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Windows

1,190,000

amazon

1,050,000

Amazon Web Services

849,000

Chrome for Developers

822,000

Microsoft Copilot

761,000

Microsoft Developer

701,000

Elgato

529,000

Microsoft Surface

511,000

Apple UK

484,000

As of November 5, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.