Microsoft is in its AI PC era

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Today on the flagship podcast of Arm-based chipsets: 03:08 - The Verge’s Tom Warren and David Pierce discuss the announcements from Microsoft’s Surface event, including the new Arm-powered Surface Laptop, and Copilot Plus PCs. Microsoft’s Surface AI event: news, rumors, and lots of Qualcomm laptops Microsoft announces an Arm-powered Surface Laptop Microsoft’s new Surface Pro gets an OLED display for the first time Microsoft announces Copilot Plus PCs with built-in AI hardware The new, faster Surface Pro is Microsoft's all-purpose AI PC Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs 27:29 -Verge senior AI reporter Kylie Robison joins the show to chat about OpenAI’s GPT-4o demo and where we’re headed in the next few years of AI. ChatGPT is getting a Mac app OpenAI’s custom GPT Store is now open to all for free OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that’s free for all ChatGPT users ChatGPT will be able to talk to you like Scarlett Johansson in Her OpenAI pulls its Scarlett Johansson-like voice for ChatGPT OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is officially leaving OpenAI researcher resigns, claiming safety has taken ‘a backseat to shiny products’ We tried out the Project Astra demo at Google I/O which worked well un... | tech | TikTok 57:40 - Nilay Patel answers a question about iPads for this week’s Vergecast Hotline. Apple iPad Pro (2024) review: the best tablet money can buy Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Virge Cast, the flagship podcast of arm-based chipsets.
0:06.0	I'm your friend David Pierce and I am currently in the woods in the middle of nowhere in Virginia
0:11.5	at an Airbnb.
0:12.6	So the last seven days have been my wife's birthday,
0:16.2	Mother's Day, and our wedding anniversary,
0:18.4	all in the course of a week.
0:20.3	If you get to choose in your life
0:22.0	to do all those things at once or spread them out through the year,
0:25.0	I highly recommend spreading them out through the year.
0:28.0	But this is what we have.
0:29.0	So every year we try to like combine all these celebrations and just go find a place in the woods with
0:34.9	bad internet and no cell connectivity and just relax for a couple of days.
0:39.4	I cannot recommend enough every once in a while just finding somewhere where you can't be online
0:44.7	whether you want to or not and just lean into it for a couple of days. It's the best. But I'm in the
0:50.4	woods, but the Virgecast goes on. We have an awesome show for you today.
0:54.3	We actually have a lot to get to. It is like the newsiest time in recent memory and
0:59.8	there's a lot of fun stuff to talk about. Today on the show, we're going to talk about two things.
1:04.0	We're going to talk about the Surface event that just happened where
1:07.0	Microsoft kind of unveiled both its new devices,
1:10.0	but also what seems to be an entirely new generation of laptops and Windows PCs.
1:15.7	There's a lot going on, there's some big, huge promises, we're going to talk about all of it.
1:19.7	We're also going to talk about Open AI.
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