SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 8 — Microsoft is pushing a “hybrid intelligence” future with a new Surface Ultra laptop that runs on Nvidia artificial intelligence (AI) chips and will cost more than US$2,500 (RM10,200), the company announced Wednesday.
The launch is part of a broader push by tech companies to release hardware that can handle more AI computing on-device and offline, so users don’t have to rely solely on remote cloud data centres, where running AI is slower and more expensive.
It also sees Nvidia, whose data centre processors power the AI revolution, make a move into personal computing, a sector dominated for decades by chips from Intel and Qualcomm.
“The trajectory for me is so clear. There will never be a moment where we will go and look and say: ‘Oh, this runs locally, this runs in the cloud.’ You will expect this hybrid intelligence to be everywhere and pervasive,” CEO Satya Nadella said during an event in San Francisco.
