Microsoft says it is adding a button to its Windows keyboard that would pull up the tech giant’s Copilot service, in the first change for the device in nearly three decades.
The “Copilot key”, announced on Thursday, marks the latest effort by the company, which is investing billions of dollars in artificial intelligence (AI), to incorporate the technology in its products.
The addition of the key underscores the company’s ambitions for AI-enabled PCs.
These machines work on advanced chips capable of running large-language models (LLM) and apps powered by the technology directly on the device instead of in the cloud.
Analysts say the introduction of AI PCs could help the personal computer market bounce back after its post-pandemic slump. The research firm Canalys expects the adoption of AI-capable PCs to speed up from 2025 onwards.
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