Microsoft’s Copilot, the company’s artificial intelligence assistant, isn’t new but the company’s AI-enhanced PCs are revolutionizing the way that research is being done in higher education. Rather than relying on a cloud-based AI program, Windows Copilot+ PCs are embedded with the tech, meaning they offer faster processing times and work offline.

Unpacking the Copilot+ PC

Historically, when faculty wanted to use AI for their research, they’ve had to access AI programming through the cloud. Copilot+ PCs are changing that. Today, they can run AI locally and even offline.

“Copilot+ PCs are a new class of Windows devices,” says Dale Perrigo, director of Windows in education at Microsoft. “They’re built with AI at the core, each featuring a neural processing unit capable of more than 40 trillion operations per second.”

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