Spring means it's prime season in the tech world, and in 2024, that means “it's time to show off your authentic ai.” Google and OpenAI have already revealed big new updates for Gemini and ChatGPT this month, and now it's time for Microsoft Build. The tech giant's annual developer conference kicks off with a keynote scheduled for Tuesday, May 21 at 12 pm ET/9 am PT, and you can watch the entire event live on Youtube (which is also included below) and in microsoft site (Registration required). What about that Microsoft Surface event you may have heard about? Well, that actually happened a day earlier: Monday, May 20th. Confused? Don't worry, here's the tl;dr version of what you can expect, summarized from our more detailed What to expect from Microsoft Build 2024: The Surface, Windows 11, and ai event.
New Microsoft Surface products expected: Monday, May 20
A day before the official Build keynote, Microsoft is hosting a more intimate event for journalists where it plans to reveal its “vision for ai in hardware and software.” That event won't be broadcast live, but Engadget will have full coverage as it unfolds.
Rumors strongly suggest that we will see new consumer-facing Surface PCs. And unlike enterprise-focused models like the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 introduced in March, these new models may be powered by updated Qualcomm Snapdragon chips: Arm chips that run cooler and offer much better battery life than their equivalents. Intel and AMD. , but often at the expense of lower application compatibility and processing speeds.
Microsoft Build Keynote: Tuesday, May 21
The idea is that Microsoft is following the model that its fellow tech giants have demonstrated this season: eliminate hardware announcements first, clearing the way for an all-ai showcase at the developers conference. That's what's happened with Apple and Google in recent weeks, as they respectively revealed new iPads weeks before the WWDC event in June and a new Pixel 8a phone in the days leading up to Google I/O.
What does that mean for Tuesday? Last year's Build announcements give you a general idea: Microsoft's Copilot ai (with possibly more impressive intelligence powered by OpenAI) integrated into even more Microsoft DNA, probably both at the device level (Windows) all the way up to the massive Microsoft infrastructure. company cloud. .
While much of Tuesday's news will come through the prism of the Microsoft developer community, we hope to give you an overview of what this all means for end users and how it fits into the hardware announcements we expect to release on Monday. Stay tuned.
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