
In fact, Panay delivered his AI promises at CES during an AMD press conference announcing the chips. AMD has released the first ones, its Ryzen 7040 series. Chipmakers right now are making and releasing PC chips that include dedicated hardware devoted to AI. Microsoft hasn’t detailed exactly how AI will integrate into Windows 12, but we're getting hints of a potential roadmap. To understand why, let’s first look at how AI might work in Windows 12. But those things might not make it into Windows. It’s likely Microsoft is cooking up things more impressive than that in its labs. Ten billion dollars for prettier Zoom meetings? Be still my beating heart! What might all this AI magic do on Windows 12? Panay offered only a single example: Zoom meetings would be better because AI will provide better Zoom backgrounds, and make it appear that your eyes are looking directly at the camera, even when they’re wandering off to the side.

(Bonus points for anyone who can decipher Panay’s word salad and explain how AI models can possibly be called “delightful.”) “Like these large generative models, think language models, code gen models, image models these models are so powerful, so delightful, so useful, personal…, It's gonna need an operating system that blurs the line between cloud and edge, and that's what we are doing right now.” Just consider what Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panay, in charge of Windows and its hardware, said at the CES conference in early January: “Artificial Intelligence is going to reinvent how you do everything on Windows, quite literally. It’s also boasting about how AI will change Windows, notably the work-in-progress Windows 12.

And so, Microsoft isn’t content to just make predictions how AI will transform the cloud, Internet search or productivity tools.
