Jensen Huang · White House · Copilot · Nvidia · Microsoft · San Francisco · Axios
Microsoft on Wednesday debuted a new class of Nvidia-powered Windows laptops
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Microsoft is trying to carve out a high-end laptop category for people who want to run demanding AI workloads locally, rather than rely entirely on the cloud.
Key facts
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and former White House AI official Sriram Krishnan were on hand in San Francisco as the company officially launched Microsoft Surface Ultra
- Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a new class of Nvidia-powered Windows laptops, its latest effort to tie the operating system more closely to the AI boom
- Microsoft's first push into AI-powered Windows machines, known as Copilot+ PCs, got off to a rocky start after the delay of Recall, its signature feature
- Microsoft's pitch for on-device AI is that developers' appetite exceeds what their companies' AI budgets can afford, with the ideal being an approach that uses both frontier models in the cloud
Summary
Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a new class of Nvidia-powered Windows laptops, its latest effort to tie the operating system more closely to the AI boom. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and former White House AI official Sriram Krishnan were on hand in San Francisco as the company officially launched Microsoft Surface Ultra, a high-end laptop powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark chip that starts at $2,599. "We have reinvented the computer as we know it," Huang said. Microsoft previewed the laptop back in June but left out key details around price and exact availability. Those devices, and the Surface Ultra, will be available starting Oct. 16.