You haven’t heard it yet, but Get ready for PC Copilot Plus, Copilot+ PC and similar combinations of the two elements to start repeating themselves with tremendous frequency in the coming hours, days and even months. The reason you haven’t heard about it until now is because Microsoft introduced it today at the event we told you about yesterday, and the reason you’re going to hear a lot about it is because it’s clear that Microsoft is working with a large industry to become the new standard.

Artificial intelligence began to gain massive prominence among the general public in mid-to-late 2022, first with specialized imaging models and later with the bomb that was ChatGPT. Thus, 2023 was the year of AI-based services, although since the middle of last year we have already seen clear signals pointing to the transfer of many AI-based operations to the client, i.e. to the user’s device, breaking away from cloud dependence and thereby providing independence and privacy.

The central axis of what we used to know as the IA PC and which has now become the Copilot+ PC is the integration of the NPU into the chip responsible for the PC and the fact that it offers minimum computing capacity of 40 TOPssomething that is already present in Snapdragon For now, yes, the first Copilot Plus computers will have exclusively ARM “hearts”.

This, of course, has an important derivation, namely that we wait, we wait a lot, that Microsoft managed to improve the functioning of Windows on ARMand this applies to both the operating system and native applications that may arrive over time, such as especially x86-64 emulation, something that has long been an unsolved problem for those at Redmond. The arrival of the first Snapdragon-based systems

Another key, of course, is that the software is able to use this computing capacity specializes in artificial intelligence and in this Microsoft has to play its role as responsible for the main desktop system for PCs, which it started to do last year by announcing the integration of Copilot in Windows 11 and later in Windows 10 and thanks to today’s announcements it is trying to grow substantially.

Until now, in addition to not yet reaching many countries (among them Spain), The integration of Copilot and AI into Windows was, shall we say, pretty lame. This is partly understandable, since we were faced with the debut of a technology that forced Microsoft to rush. Although it makes sense to give Redmond some time to improve their design in this regard, one would expect a substantial improvement in this first evolution. And while we’ll have to wait until we can try it out for ourselves, it looks like they’ve done their homework.

Of all that was announced today, Without a doubt, the most notable thing is Recall, a feature that will act as a reminder of everything we used to do on the PC, as was previously possible with the Windows Activity History timeline, but with the added bonus of being able to perform AI-based searches in historical telling. And when I say search, I don’t mean dates, file names and so on, but the content of what we’ve accessed over time, as shown in the video you can find above.

However, it’s evident that this feature can be quite scary for those most concerned about privacy, which is why, along with the rest of the features announced today, it will only be available on devices that meet the Copilot+ PC specification. so that it can be operated locally with adequate performance. However, as with activity history, we understand that it will also be possible to configure the system to not store or index our activities.

Another pretty important feature that comes with the Copilot+ PC specification is Cocreator, local implementation of DALL-E based Image Creator functions. In what Microsoft showed today and what will be included in tools like Paint and Photos, we find a generative model with more features for both creation and editing. In the example of this feature that Microsoft showed, we could see how we can create images with different styles from a very basic design.

One area where we’ve seen huge advances in artificial intelligence recently is real-time translation, with implementations as interesting as the ones Google brought to the Pixel 8. Copilot+ computers are also joining the wave, albeit initially do it with english only. So Windows 11 will make it possible convert any audio signal with support of more than 40 languages ​​to English subtitlesimmediately and without the need for an Internet connection.

Copilot will also benefit from this major update and will adding new models, including GPT-4o, which, as you may recall, was introduced last week. And yes, as confirmed, the voice conversation features that surprised us so much aim to be present on Copilot+ computers as well, bringing the new paradigm of AI-based digital assistants to desktops as well.

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