Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella speaks at the Microsoft May 20 Briefing event at Microsoft on May 20, 2024 in Redmond, Washington.
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microsoft The company is touting new computers with advanced chips designed to run the artificial intelligence features of its Windows software without quickly draining battery life.
The company on Monday announced Surface Laptop and Surface Pro tablets with the following features: Qualcomm A chip that can perform some AI tasks without an internet connection. Other computer manufacturers, including Lenovo, Dell, HP, Asus, Acer, and Samsung, are also launching AI-enabled PCs powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus processors, which promise longer battery life, and Microsoft’s It also runs the AI chatbot Copilot.
Device manufacturers launch PCs with the following features: AMD Microsoft said in a press keynote at its Redmond, Wash., campus that it plans to include Intel chips that comply with the Copilot+ standard in the future. Your PC can also translate audio, respond to incoming messages, suggest changes to Settings apps, and have conversations with people about what you see on your screen.
Copilot+ PC prices start at $999. Microsoft is accepting pre-orders starting Monday, and the device is expected to be released in June.
The recall feature allows you to search logs of previous actions on your PC. Recall relies on AI models running directly on the device, so it can run offline and no index of data is sent to a remote server. AI models will be able to generate images based on written descriptions, not just drawings.
Microsoft is counting on Qualcomm’s energy efficiency armA base chip that can handle AI models to protect the Windows franchise. apple gained market share in PC shipments with MacBooks equipped with Arm-based chips; Intela top provider of computer processors.
Microsoft is expanding its efforts to bring ChatGPT-like features to consumers and business users. Microsoft-backed OpenAI will release his ChatGPT chatbot in late 2022, becoming popular as a tool for quickly retrieving computer-generated poems, email drafts, and summaries of historical events. did.
Other major tech companies, including Microsoft, quickly began using generative AI to power their own products: The Copilot chatbot, based on ChatGPT’s underlying AI model, appeared in the Bing search engine alongside the Windows 10 and 11 operating systems, and people with subscriptions to Office productivity software can pay an extra fee to have Copilot look up documents and provide written responses.
The GPT-4 model within ChatGPT performs only the necessary computing work in Microsoft’s Azure cloud. Newer PCs can run some AI models locally without an internet connection.
The announcement comes almost immediately after Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told analysts during an earnings call that “AI will be the most advanced part of every PC by 2024.” It took place four months later.
Microsoft has had little success in getting people to adopt Arm-based Windows computers. Windows computers are not necessarily Intel or AMD Chip. Some applications are not compatible.
Running generative AI locally requires more power from your computer, making long battery life important. This could make Windows on Arm more appealing.
In a note distributed to clients earlier this month, Morgan Stanley analysts expect Arm systems to account for 14% of all Windows PC shipments by 2026, up from 0% in 2023.
Microsoft shares rose 1.2% to close at $425.34 on Monday afternoon, just shy of the all-time high reached in March. Qualcomm rose 2% to close at $197.76, its highest price ever.