Ahead of its annual developer conference starting Tuesday, Microsoft announced its latest foray into artificial intelligence with recent branding called Copilot Plus PCs. The brand will denote Microsoft laptops equipped with AI hardware and running AI applications.
– said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at a press conference According to The Verge, the recent computers will be available on Monday from all of the company’s major laptop partners, including Dell and HP. Microsoft’s Surface laptops will also feature Copilot Plus computers.
The company was expected to unveil a recent version of the Surface Pro tablet and Surface Laptop powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips and designed by Arm. Qualcomm processors are there will probably be on par with processors that Intel replaces. Nadella added that Microsoft laptops powered by Intel and AMD chips will also be equipped with artificial intelligence features.
The recent Surface Pro and Surface Laptop will be equipped with NPUs, or neural processing units, or hardware accelerators built to run AI applications on the devices.
One of the recent AI features for PCs, “Recall”, uses artificial intelligence to create a “photo memory” of a user’s activity on a laptop, which can then be searched. The company also announced that Microsoft Copilot will be updated to support the recent ChatGPT-4o.
In addition to the AI updates, Microsoft is expected to announce updates to its Surface devices, including more memory to support AI apps and changes to model builds.
In January, Microsoft updated its computers to enable users ask AI chatbot using keyboard. Microsoft has announced that its recent Windows keyboards will feature a Copilot key for its AI-powered assistant, Copilot, marking the first major keyboard update in nearly two decades. The Copilot key replaces the menu key.
In keyboard updateYusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s director of consumer marketing, said that 2024 will be “the year of PCs with artificial intelligence.”
“In the recent year, we are ushering in a significant shift towards a more personal and wise computing future where artificial intelligence is seamlessly woven into Windows, from the system to the silicon to the hardware,” Mehdi said.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
