Not All Copilot+ Laptops Get AI Features Right Away
A few days before Apple’s WWDC event, Microsoft’s own initiative to create artificially intelligent laptops received some bad news. While the first Copilot+ devices will be released on June 18, it turns out that only a fraction of the new laptops sold under the Copilot+ brand will actually have any advanced AI features built in at launch.
This comes as something of a surprise since processor companies AMD and Intel announced at Computex that they would release Copilot+ compatible laptop chips later this fall. Previously, Microsoft had only said that Copilot+ would appear on Windows on Arm devices using Qualcomm chips.
That’s a lot of branding, but it essentially means that Copilot+ laptops will now be split between three different chipsets – and unfortunately, it looks like two of those chipsets will lag behind the other.
In statements to The Verge, representatives from Microsoft, Intel, AMD, and Nvidia (which works with AMD) confirmed that non-Qualcomm laptops will have to wait for Copilot+ features. While ARM-based laptops will arrive later this month with access to Recall and an automatic super-resolution gaming mode , laptops with AMD and Intel chips will have to wait for “free updates” to get those features, Microsoft marketing manager James Howell said. Edge.
Specifically, AMD communications manager Matthew Hurwitz noted that these “co-pilot experiences+” may not appear until “late 2024.”
Perhaps this was partly to be expected. Intel’s own press release about AI chips for laptops mentions that Copilot+ features will be available through free updates “when available.” But the language and potential timing have not yet been entirely clear.
Although Microsoft does not directly manufacture AMD or Intel devices, with the exception of some Surface models, this puts the Windows maker in a difficult position as Apple prepares its own artificial intelligence features to be implemented in macOS 15. Typically, an Apple user will be able to buy a new Mac and assume that he knows everything about Mac; Windows users looking to get into AI will be split into three options, and will have to do a lot more research into what they can and can’t do with their new machines right out of the box.