Live blog from Microsoft ‘AI Era’ event

Adobe Creative Suite now runs natively on Copilot+ PC devices, which require 16 GB of RAM, 256 GB of SSD storage, and an integrated NPU.

New Microsoft Surface Laptop and Surface Pro with Copilot and Snapdragon X chips. Up to 22 hours of video playback on the device, battery life of 15 hours of web browsing.

We’re now working on native Arm apps, including Microsoft 365 apps built from the ground up for ARM.

Okay, Prism emulation for Windows on Arm, effectively bridging the x86/x64/Arm gap.

Okay, now we’re talking about the partnerships between Microsoft, Intel, AMD and Qualcomm. The video features Gelsinger, Su and Amon, as an Avengers super team. I guess Apple is Thanos in this case?

We’re now at Windows Copilot Runtime, an operating system-level framework that allows developers to better leverage the power of an NPU for their apps.

The idea of ​​having a ‘history’ for your PC, similar to a web browser, that allows you to work offline is truly innovative. If it’s on-device and secure, I’m definitely in favor of this kind of AI.

Windows Recall also includes Timeline, which lets you browse your device history to find what you’re looking for.

We are focused on privacy and security. Call data is used only on-device, with control over what data is kept on your device, and will never be used to train Microsoft’s AI models.

We’re now at Recall, which promises to leverage your usage history with on-device AI so you can retrieve data you didn’t even know you’d forgotten was processed on your PC. Carolina Hernandez, Recall’s product lead, describes how you can use the Recall feature to search in natural language for web pages you once visited, such as the blue dress you viewed as a gift for a relative.

As far as demos go, the ChatGPT-4o walkthrough of how to play Minecraft is quite impressive. As a lifelong gamer, this is the kind of use that makes sense for real people.

Copilot will be integrated into Windows 11 settings, notifications, and other systems.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o will be fully integrated into Windows, allowing ChatGPT-4o to help you navigate Minecraft if you’ve never played the game before, sort of like an interactive walkthrough.

We are talking about a new system architecture that performs more than 40 trillion operations per second, 58% faster than the MacBook Air with M3, according to Mehdi.

Yusuf Medhi takes the stage to tell us about the new category of PC platforms.

Copilot + PC is the new platform that Microsoft is introducing, although we don’t know much yet. This is absolutely about integrating AI into the entire Windows platform, not just a tool slapped like a barnacle on the side of a non-AI operating system.

We’ll start with Copilot.

We’re on our way now as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella takes the stage. I can already tell you that given the number of Qualcomm people I’ve seen here and how the Copilot logo is plastered all over campus, it’s not really a mystery that this event will be heavily weighted toward the gigantic AI ambitions from Microsoft. and that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chips will play a pretty big role in Microsoft’s Surface device plans.

Here we go, folks! This is John, live from Microsoft’s Redmond campus in Washington state, where the venerable tech giant is holding a special event ahead of its annual Microsoft Build conference. We’re all expecting exciting things from the event, so stay tuned as I bring you everything I see and hear in the next hour.