KNIME AI Extension needs Anaconda?

Hi dear KNIMErs,

I have a strange situation: I am guiding some of my colleagues through using the KNIME AI Extension

hub.knime.com

But somehow they have difficulties installing it whereas it worked like a charm for me without any problems. We contacted our internal IT support who claims, that we have to run a separate installation of Anaconda to use this extension.

Is that true or is this somehow confused with some other topics?

I am asking since I simply installed it (same infrastructure than my colleagues) and I am not aware that I ran any additional installaiton of Anaconda or something like this.

Thank you very much in advance.