When Microsoft first launched Windows 11 in 2021, the company’s EVP and Chief Product Officer, Panos Panay, said At the time Windows 11 was “the first chapter of the next era of Windows”. Now, a year later, we’re finally starting to understand what Microsoft means by this.
At AMD’s CES 2023 keynote earlier this month, Panos Panay was invited on stage by host and AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Xu. The discussion was mainly about AMD’s new AI engine inside the new Ryzen 7040 series chips, and how that will help Microsoft in the next generation of AI-powered software.
He said:
AI is the defining technology of our time, like nothing I’ve ever seen before. It’s changing industries, it’s improving our daily lives in so many ways – some of it you see, some of it you don’t -, and we’re at an inflection point right now. are on This is where cloud-to-edge computing is becoming more intelligent, more personal, and all by harnessing the power of AI.
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.. Now AMD is also at the forefront of AI technology, with the Ryzen 7040 series, with Windows 11. This is our next step in this journey.
Afterwards, the senior Microsoft executive also teased a bit about the next generation of Windows, which will have a lot to do with AI. While AI isn’t exactly new on Windows, its integration is likely to accelerate as the Redmond dev is working on ways to make it happen. Windows 12 can be deeply integrated with the cloud because the AI ​​processing is so deep.
AI is going to reinvent how you do everything on Windows, quite literally. Like these big generative models, think language model, code gene model, image model; These models are so powerful, so delightful, so useful, so personal. But they’re also computationally intensive, and so we haven’t been able to do that before. We’ve never seen this massive workload on this scale before, and here they are. It needs an operating system that blurs the line between the cloud and the edge, and that’s what we’re doing right now.
A potentially cloud-based future for Windows is also good news for users in terms of system requirements, which has always been a topic of debate in the case of Windows 11. will likely be normal. Perhaps next-generation AI-powered Windows 12 is Microsoft’s big master plan, which explains recent rumors of the company’s interest in acquiring OpenAI and integrating ChatGPT with Bing.
Source: AMD (Youtube) through Computer World
