Microsoft introduces AI-focused Copilot+ PCs

Microsoft (MSFT) held a conference Monday, unveiling a new PC update featuring its latest AI Copilot technology, which will incorporate OpenAI's GPT-4o language model.

Yahoo Finance's tech reporter Dan Howley breaks down the details of Microsoft's continued investment into artificial intelligence, shedding light on Microsoft's direct shots at its rival Apple (AAPL), drawing comparisons between their new PC offering and Apple's product lineup.

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This post was written by Angel Smith

Video transcript

Microsoft is going all in on A I for the PC.

The company unveiling a new category of computers and software during an event this afternoon, Yahoo Finance's Dan Halley is there at Microsoft headquarters.

He's got more on the news.

We got you running around a lot here lately.

Dan, what stood out to you from today's announcement?

Yeah.

Right.

Julie, we're here at uh Microsoft's newest campus here in Redmond.

Obviously, you can see behind me, they're talking about a new era in P CS.

Basically the, the gist of what they were doing was announcing kind of a, a new refresh or I guess error uh in P CS where they're going to have their Microsoft co-pilot running across all of windows and powering that will be chips from Qualcomm, Intel and a MD chief among them, though Qualcomm here is the most mentioned it also in addition to opening up Copilot and adding A I to General P CS, opens up a new front and uh kind of an exciting front uh in the, the overall computer landscape uh where Microsoft and Apple are now back going toe to toe.

And so uh part of the event was Microsoft basically saying look, these P CS can now be the uh Macbook air with the latest M three chip in terms of battery life, in terms of performance, in terms of sustained performance.

And they really wanted to hammer that point home now as far as the copilot integrations, they say that they're running open A I GP T 40 as part of copilot now.

And so users will be able to do things like have their Copilot look directly at their screen.

So say you're running in a demonstration.

They showed the game Minecraft.

Uh You can ask how to build a sword in Minecraft and Copilot will be able to see what's on your screen and tell you exactly how to complete that test.

Now.

Sure, most people probably won't be playing Minecraft on their computer.

Uh I'll be playing other games but other people will be doing things like using uh office or maybe Adobe uh uh apps.

And so they say that that will be able to be something that's integrated as well.

They just use the example of Minecraft because it was a nice visual thing for them to do.

So the, the upshot here being that Microsoft, uh you know, while P CS went through this doldrum period of two years of just declining shipments, uh We just saw the first increase in shipments in two years and now they're hoping to kick start a whole new cycle with this A I PC era led by their copilot plus P CS is what they're calling them.

And some of these chips from Qualcomm Intel and A MD.