Microsoft Debuts New Copilot+ Windows PCs Designed Around AI

[MacRumors]

Microsoft today announced the launch of new Windows PCs that have integrated AI hardware, called Copilot+ PCs. According to Microsoft, the Copilot+ PCs are the fastest PCs "ever built" with all-day battery life, chips capable of 40 trillion operations per second, and "access to the most advanced AI models."

The new machines are designed with "AI at the center," introducing experiences that can be run directly on device to cut down on latency and improve privacy.

• Recall - Recall gives the PC a "photographic memory" so users can access anything they've seen or done on their PC. Content can be located using timelines across any website, application, or document, with support for snapshots.
• Cocreator - Text prompts can be used to generate new images using the neural processing units of the computer. Art can be created based on the text input, and there is a creativity slider to choose from a range between more literal to more expressive.
• Restyle Image - Combines image generation and photo editing. Pre-set styles can be used to change the background, foreground, or full image.
• Live Captions - Live Captions support live translations and can turn any audio that passes through the PC into a single, English-language caption experience in real time across all apps. Any live or pre-recorded audio in any app or video platform can be translated from 40 languages into English.
• Quick Settings - In Windows Studio Effects, the Quick Settings option cleans up video with automatic image adjustments for videos calls to mitigate low-light or add filters.

All Copilot+ PCs include a "powerful AI agent" that can be accessed with a single tap on the Copilot key. There is an AI interface that will support the latest models such as OpenAI's GPT-4o.

Microsoft claims that the Copilot+ PCs outperform the 15-inch MacBook Air by up to 58 percent in sustained multithreaded performance, while also offering longer battery life. Microsoft says the battery is able to last for up to 15 hours of web browsing or 22 hours of local video playback, beating the MacBook Air.

The new Microsoft Surface Pro and Surface Laptop are some of the first Copilot+ PCs, and ASUS, Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung have also introduced Copilot+ PCs. The new PCs are available today and are priced starting at $999.

Article Link: Microsoft Debuts New Copilot+ Windows PCs Designed Around AI

 

[d5aqoëp]

NGL, Windows 11 is a horrid and bloated OS which I have the misfortune of using it daily.

 

[purplerainpurplerain]

The jankiest hardware designs running the jankiest OS now with generative handiness built in.

 

[genovelle]

We will see

 

[BradGD]

Hate how even more bloated an already bloated Windows has become with all this "AI" stuff.

 

[jb310]

Man, with other tech companies pulling out AI magic at every big event, at this point WWDC is either going to be mind-blowingly amazing... or a massive disappointment if Apple turns out to be behind the curve on AI again.

I really hope for the former. 🤞

 

[purplerainpurplerain]

NGL, Windows 11 is a horrid and bloated OS which I have the misfortune of using it daily.

It’s basically Windows Vista 64 bit with a skin, new drivers and Direct X 12.

Every Windows OS in the last 20 years has just been a reskin like that. Many of the admin apps haven’t even been reskinned since Windows XP.

macOS does major reboot from the ground up every five or so years. Every year is a major rebuild that requires many apps to be updated.

 

[dumastudetto]

Copilot+ systems also have the new Phoning Home Engine that has 2 performance cores dedicated to processing and sending your data to Microsoft.

 

[Apple Mac Daz]

Recall looks quality if it works

 

[FSMBP]

They need more bass-drops.

 

[zorinlynx]

More AI? Freaking hell I don't think I've ever seen the entire computer industry become *this* suddenly obsessed with something before.

 

[icanhazmac]

No thanks! "AI" is just the latest con to hoover up user data.

 

[CopyCatz]

"Honey, I do not recall having this porn on my pc". AI: HMB!

 

[Elyzien]

When copilot crashes, I wonder if it will get his own color screen of death?

 

[antiprotest]

Man, with other tech companies pulling out AI magic at every big event, at this point WWDC is either going to be mind-blowingly amazing... or a massive disappointment if Apple turns out to be behind the curve on AI again.

I really hope for the former. 🤞

And with their traditional schedule and way of doing things, it appears they were unwilling or unable to release something to tie us over meanwhile. After WWDC and then September, other companies will keep advancing every few months or even weeks, but Apple will wait a whole other year to make major progress. This model might have to change.

 

[c84216]

They aren’t really talking specifics with these Qualcomm chips.

They’re claiming great battery life but at what performance expense? And they aren’t talking about battery life on higher performance tasks.

The Surface Laptop line is running about $200 less than an equivalently configured MacBook Air. Microsoft is squarely taking aim at the Air because the Qualcomm chips don’t have an equivalent Pro/Max/Ultra equivalent and only max at 16 gb RAM (the M3 can go to 24 gb). Edit: I just realized the processor and RAM configurations are tied to specific colors of the computer…anything more than a 16 Gb Elite 15” can only be had in black…what?!

The AI features Microsoft showed off are useless fluff except for Recall, which is a complete and total privacy nightmare and an example of “just because you can do it doesn’t mean you should.”

Windows 11 chokes on a high speced Intel PC (ask my work computer) so I can’t imagine it doing well on Qualcomm ARM chips. Windows hasn’t been and still isn’t ARM ready and given the performance overhead from all of Windows’ underlying cruft, I think these devices are going to underwhelm when all is said and done.

 

[Attirex]

Recall not a security risk! At all.

 

[RemedyRabbit]

A creativity slider 😐

 

[dannys1]

Fair play to Microsoft it's a good idea. It'd be nice if they dropped ALL the Windows legacy support and created a modern AI baked Windows OS from scratch. There's just SO much legacy junk in Windows for the enterprise sector it's insane.

They've got stuff in that back end that still behaves the way it did in MS-DOS times to prevent breaking compatibility. I know that is needed for some business - but how about a Windows Classic/Business/Professional etc that has all that legacy support baked in - and a lean, modern OS for the average user or new business startup that doesn't need all the legacy support but wants a modern fast OS?

 

[zorinlynx]

Man, with other tech companies pulling out AI magic at every big event, at this point WWDC is either going to be mind-blowingly amazing... or a massive disappointment if Apple turns out to be behind the curve on AI again.

I really hope for the former. 🤞

I really hope for the latter. I despise "AI" and don't really want it forced upon me. The way things are going it sounds like that's exactly what the industry wants to do; shove this down everyone's throat.

 

[dominiongamma]

Hate how even more bloated an already bloated Windows has become with all this "AI" stuff.

Apple is next sadly by forcing the garbage with iOS 18

 

[AHDuke99]

It's concerning how far behind Apple seems with AI. Google has AI built into Android and MSFT is making AI PCs. Apple still has Siri that can't do anything...

 

[RemedyRabbit]

Translation is cool, definitely one of the AI things I’m most excited about. A lot of the other stuff feels a little bit gimmicky to me tbh.

 

[smulji]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1792639520522867008

 

[KPOM]

This does seem like a good effort. They have revamped their Rosetta equivalent and claim that 90% of “user app time” is on native ARM code now. The Surface Pro is the Microsoft equivalent of an iPad Pro running macOS that so many on the iPad forums claim they want. The neural processor is faster than the M4. We’ll see from the benchmarks how the CPU and GPU compare to the M4.