During its Copilot ai and Surface event in May, Microsoft introduced Recall, an ai-powered feature for Windows built to help you find anything you've seen on your PC. The feature, Microsoft said, is available exclusively on recently released and future Copilot+ PCs, which are devices that come with built-in neural processing units (NPUs) for ai tasks. Now, someone using the pseudonym Albacore has released a console app for Windows. on Github called Amperage That will allow users to run Recall even on older computers that the feature does not officially support.
The tool can only enable Recall on computers with Arm64-based SoCs, which means they must be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon, Microsoft SQ, or Ampere chipset. Users should also make sure they are running Windows 11 version 24H2 build 26100.712, because older and newer beta versions of the operating system do not have the necessary components to activate the feature. As ai-feature-unsupported-hardware” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:The Verge;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>The edge However, he notes that future iterations of the tool may unlock Recall for more devices, as AMD- and Intel-based Copilot+ PCs are expected to be available later this year.
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I was able to get Recall to work with this bad boy
Snapdragon 7c+ Gen3, 3.4 GB RAM, no NPU in sight
I'll be putting together a tutorial soon, it's surprisingly good even on something with such low specs If you have any questions, I'll do my best to answer them twitter.com/zzswm44Hy1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>pic.twitter.com/zzswm44Hy1
— Albacore (@thebookisclosed) twitter.com/thebookisclosed/status/1794507110119559491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:May 25, 2024;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>May 25, 2024
Recovery works by taking snapshots of the PC while the user is on it, storing them locally on the computer, and then using small multimodal local language models to recognize text, images, and videos in them. If a user wants to find something they previously looked at on her PC, whether it's an image, a website, a document, or an email, they can search the Recall timeline. Microsoft said it will work even if the user types in vague contextual clues in case they can't remember exact phrases or descriptions. And since the snapshots Recall takes are stored locally and offline, user data is supposed to remain private and secure.
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