Your guide to setting up a free local AI builder
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Dyad is a blazing-fast local IDE for AI-powered coding. It lets you talk to models, edit code, and generate files — all from a beautiful offline interface.
You can download it for free at dyad.sh.
Microsoft offers qualified users and startups $1,000 in Azure OpenAI credits via their startup portal.
All you need to do is sign up at portal.startups.microsoft.com, activate your profile, and apply for OpenAI usage.
This gives you access to GPT-4 and GPT-4o endpoints on Azure — perfect for integrating into your local setup.
Once approved, you can deploy a model instance using Azure Foundry.
You'll get:
This lets you operate just like ChatGPT Pro — but on your own infra.
But there's a workaround:
Use this open-source proxy from the community — azure-oai-proxy — to locally bridge requests.
It translates Azure's API format into OpenAI-compatible responses, allowing Dyad to work seamlessly.
To connect:
Easy and effective — and you're in control.
We've got a test build of Dyad with proxy support pre-configured — available exclusively in our community. See how to get it below.
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