Microsoft is making a major push to put AI into laptops. It’s introducing a new branding called “Copilot Plus PCs” today that’ll highlight when Windows laptops come with built-in AI hardware and support for AI features across the operating system.
At an event at its headquarters in Redmond on Monday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that Copilot Plus PCs will be offered by all of its major laptop partners, including Dell, Lenovo, Samsung, HP, Acer, and Asus. The company’s own Surface line will offer Copilot Plus PC models, too. And while the company is also making a big push to bring Arm-chips to Windows laptops, Nadella said that laptops with Intel and AMD chips will offer these AI features, too.
The features will be possible thanks to a neural processor included with the laptops. One of the flagship features it’ll power is “Recall,” which is supposed to use AI to create a searchable “photographic memory” of everything you’ve done and seen on your PC. Microsoft’s built-in AI assistant, Copilot, will also gain support for GPT-4o
Yusuf Mehdi, the Microsoft exec over Windows, said the new laptops will be “58 percent faster” than a MacBook Air with an M3 processor and have battery life that last “all day.” Mehdi didn’t make it clear, however, if this will be true of all Copilot Plus PC laptops, or just the models that make the switch to Qualcomm’s Arm-based processors.
