Microsoft is introducing Windows laptops that come with built-in AI hardware and support for AI features across the operating system. All of Microsoft’s major laptop partners will offer Copilot Plus PCs.
The AI capabilities 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 is pitching these devices as the start of a new era of Windows laptops, and it might not be all talk. The shift to Arm-based chips — which Microsoft has tried and failed to achieve in the past — could meaningfully boost the battery life on Windows laptops.
And the new AI features are designed to work across processor hardware. It’s two big bets on unproven hardware and software, but they have the potential to be transformative if they work.
