Microsoft wants 2024 to be “the year of the AI PC” and it’s kicking things off with a significant change to the keyboard on new laptops and PCs. A new Copilot key will ship on a variety of new PCs and laptops from Microsoft’s partners, providing quick access to Microsoft’s AI-powered Windows Copilot experience straight from a keyboard button press.
Microsoft's AI Will Run Both in the Cloud and Locally
The Copilot key is a prelude to a huge push for more integrated AI. At CES 2024 this week, we're seeing a wave of so-called AI PCs. These machines use the latest chips from Intel, AMD, or Qualcomm and have integrated neural processing units (NPUs), which means they can run more AI tasks locally on the PC hardware. This means the actions could happen much quicker—no seconds-long delay while Windows phones home to Microsoft’s data centers and waits for a response. Imagine instantly getting AI-based suggestions for how you might want to rewrite a document, or asking questions about a PDF on your computer. And since those tasks happen locally on your PC and not on a server somewhere, it’s more private, a big boon to businesses that want to keep their data and not have it processed at another company’s data centers. (Plus, it would even work offline!)
What are the uses of the "Copilot" button?
After pressing the ribbon-shaped button, the AI chatbot which is powered by Bing is summoned by the user, helping them with tasks that include searching for furniture online, summarization of a heavy article, or changing settings on their PC.
In regions where Copilot is not available, the Copilot key will launch Windows Search. The first keyboards with the new key will launch at this year’s CES in Las Vegas and will likely start shipping in late February
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