Microsoft is in its AI PC era

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On The Vergecast: nan caller Surfaces are here, GPT-ScarJo, and nan statement for a touchscreen MacBook.

By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host pinch complete a decade of acquisition covering user tech. Previously, astatine Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.

May 21, 2024, 1:11 PM UTC

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We’ve heard nan communicative truthful galore times, that this is nan clip that Windows connected Arm will activity and we’ll get a gyration successful powerful, portable, long-lasting PCs. For a decade, nan communicative has been fiction. This time, though... I don’t know. It benignant of seems real.

On this section of The Vergecast, Tom Warren joins from Seattle to show america each astir Microsoft’s latest event, what a Copilot Plus PC is, really nan new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop feel, why Recall could beryllium nan AI slayer app Microsoft needs, and more. If Microsoft is correct astir really bully nan Qualcomm X chips are, this could beryllium 1 of nan biggest weeks successful Windows history. Don’t hide to subscribe to Notepad!

After that, Kylie Robison comes connected nan show to talk astir each things OpenAI. That lively, fun, flirty GPT-4o demo is still connected our minds — is this nan AI early we’re looking for? And what’s going to happen to Sky, nan sound everyone heard and instantly said sounded for illustration Scarlett Johansson, now that ScarJo herself has taken rumor pinch it? The benignant of institution OpenAI wants to be, and nan kinds of products it wants to build, look hugely important successful nan adjacent shape of nan tech industry.

Finally, we return a mobility from nan Vergecast Hotline astir nan quality betwixt a touchscreen MacBook — which mightiness hap — and a Mac-like iPad — which astir apt won’t. It’s astir hardware and software, but mostly, it’s astir business models. But hey, Apple, tin we astatine slightest get amended browsers?

If you want to cognize much astir everything we talk successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, opening pinch Microsoft:

And connected OpenAI:

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