Microsoft sets out to reinvent Windows and the way of using the PC
The company founded by Bill Gates focused on the use of artificial intelligence and announced that its operating system would have the most significant change in recent decades. There is no longer any doubt that the very rapid advance of artificial intelligence will transform the work, study, and entertainment experience for millions of people. Confirmation of this change came in announcements Microsoft made this week at its ” Build ” developer event, where it laid out its strategy to transform Windows and the PC ecosystem, with AI at the center of it all.
Windows, with AI under the hood
Until now, artificial intelligence experiences for general users came mainly from cloud services such as ChatGPT, for text creation, or Midjourney, for images, among others.
Now, Microsoft has decided to drive a strong shift towards running multiple artificial intelligence applications locally, on the users’ computers, and not on a remote server.
According to Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, the local execution of AI apps offers clear advantages in terms of latency and data privacy, an issue that is beginning to concern individual users and companies.
To achieve this change, the company founded by Bill Gates will implement great innovations in Windows, The operating system will integrate no less than 40 different language models to accompany and assist the user in solving different tasks.
Thanks to this, artificial intelligence will be present to contribute to different tasks, such as image editing or automatic language translation instantly. Microsoft also demonstrated a new Windows feature called ” Recall “, which allows the user to easily find any item or work they have recently done by a short description.
According to the company, this is like always having at the disposal of an assistant who has a photographic memory,
The new computers
The Redmond company called its new artificial intelligence ecosystem Copilot+ and the new hardware is essential for it to function fully.
It turns out that for the local execution of artificial intelligence in an efficient way – quickly and without excessive energy consumption – computers must have a special accelerator circuit. This component is called NPU (Neural Processing Unit) and is already present in the latest microprocessors from Intel, AMD and Qualcomm.
As explained by Microsoft, Copilot+ PCs must have an NPU with a performance of 40 TOPS (Tera Operations per Second). This is the level that, more or less, the chips from the main manufacturers offer today. And it is expected that, logically, performance will escalate in the coming months.
This first wave of PC Copilot+ is just the beginning, Over the past year, we’ve seen an incredible pace of AI innovation in the cloud, and Copilot is enabling us to do things we never dreamed possible. Now we begin a new chapter with the on-device AI innovation. We’ve completely reinvented the PC—from silicon to OS to application layer to cloud—with AI at the center, marking the most significant change to the Windows platform in decades,” Microsoft noted.
Although laptops and other equipment equipped with NPUs have been available on the market for a few months, until now many users had not found real use cases for the acceleration of artificial intelligence.
Microsoft wants to change that and for that reason it organized the launch of the Copilot+ computers with manufacturers such as Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Samsung. The promise is that there will be equipment that can be purchased starting at US$999 in the United States and availability will begin next June 18.
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