Microsoft is integrating generative AI directly into personal computers

Microsoft on Monday presented the highly anticipated “AI PCs”, computers where generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools are integrated directly into its Windows operating system.

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After his partner OpenAI and its rival Google last week, Microsoft is holding its developer conference this week, focusing on its latest innovations inAI.

We’re introducing an entirely new category of Windows personal computers designed to unleash the full power ofAI closer to userssaid Satya Nadella, general manager of the company, during a conference at the company’s headquarters in Redmond (northwest), in front of an audience of journalists, analysts and influencers.

We completely reimagined the personal computer from the inside outunderlined Yusuf Mehdi, vice-president of the IT giant.

THE Copilot Plus PCfrom the name of the interfaceAI of Windows – Copilot – are the fastest, smartest Windows-based personal computers ever made. […] These Improvements Will Provide the Best Reason in a Long Time to Switch Computers.

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The integration of theAI to Microsoft’s Surface range should help revive its sales of personal devices, which declined last year (-9% over one year).

New tools, such as live translation, image generation or questions to the Copilot assistant, will be available without a subscription, without opening separate applications.

The ability to remember anything thanks to a photographic memory… For me, it’s a super powerestimated Yusuf Mehdi during an interview with theAFP.

Thanks to the new function Recalla user can in fact go back in time on their computer, see all the windows they have opened, or ask Copilot to find a presentation that contained a particular image, for example.

The Cocreator tool allows you to create images by drawing and giving written instructions (prompt). It’s free, super fast, completely private, and you can’t do it anywhere elsepraises Mr. Mehdi.

Thanks to NPUspecialized chips for the tasks ofAIexchanges with models take place directly on the computer, instead of sending data to the cloud (server in a data center) and waiting for a response in return.

Companies like Lenovo, Dell, Acer and HP have recently released computers with NPUand will now integrate Copilot Plus, hoping to revive public interest in computers.

We finally have a tool at our disposal to give users what they wantrejoices Caleb Fleming, a marketing manager at HP, explaining that the new chip allows, among other things, to optimize the use of the battery.

OpenAI, a precursor

OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, launched the chat revolution at the end of 2022.AI generative, which produces and understand all kinds of content (texts, images, etc.), and therefore allows you to interact with machines like never before.

Since then, all the tech giants have been engaged in a frantic race to deploy this technology.

Apple, Microsoft’s main competitor on the computer side, has remained discreet on theAI generative so far, but it is expected to introduce its own innovations in June.

Google and OpenAI went all out last week on assistants AIalways more perfected.

Thanks to its new GPT-4o model, ChatGPT will be able to converse very fluidly, a bit like a human friend contacted by video call. So much so that many observers are concerned about the tendency to blur the line between people and machines.

Copilot will run on GPT-4o and allow live discussions – to receive advice during a video game, for example.

But the result should anthropomorphize the assistant much less, indicated Yusuf Mehdi.

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