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by AraceliHarker 819 days ago
The so-called "AI PC" is nothing more than a marketing gimmick. It has no new features, just a Copilot button on the keyboard and the same background editing function for web conferences that has been available for a long time.
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And with the $10B they sank into OpenAI, I don’t expect anything local from a Microsoft product anytime soon.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/introducing-neural-pr...

DirectML is a low-level API that provides a common abstraction layer for hardware vendors to expose their machine learning accelerators. DirectML works with any DirectX 12-compatible device including GPUs and now NPUs. Support for Intel Core Ultra processors with Intel AI Boost was developed in close collaboration with Intel.

Welcome to 2024, everyone is marketing "AI" something something with their products. I've seen power tools with "AI" slapped onto the marketing.