Nvidia had an exciting announcement on the eve of Computex, revealing a range of AI advancements for the cloud, developers, and the edge. One of the highlights is the upcoming launch of a new class of laptops in late 2024. These laptops will offer hardware-accelerated AI capabilities and come with a free update to Copilot+ PC experiences, once they become available. According to Jason Paul, Vice President of Nvidia, the company first introduced AI PCs in 2018 with the release of RTX Tensor Core GPUs and NVIDIA DLSS. Now, with Project G-Assist and NVIDIA ACE, they are ushering in the next generation of AI-powered experiences for over 100 million RTX AI PC users. The introduction of these advancements aims to address concerns about the limited availability of Copilot+ PCs. With this new development, more PCs, including existing ones with Nvidia GeForce GPUs, will have access to these capabilities. Project G-Assist is an AI assistant designed for gamers and creators. It offers in-game and in-app assistance through voice or text inputs. By leveraging contextual awareness from the screen and AI vision models, it generates personalized responses. Nvidia ACE, on the other hand, is a cloud-based microservices infrastructure that paves the way for AI avatars in specific industries.

This technology simplifies the creation, animation, and operation of lifelike digital humans in areas such as customer service, telehealth, gaming, and entertainment. It includes features like automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech conversion and translation, language understanding, contextual response generation, and facial animation with real-time, path-traced realistic skin and hair. While Nvidia ACE is currently available in the cloud, it is also in early access for GeForce RTX AI PCs, including the previously mentioned 100 million existing RTX AI PCs. Regarding Copilot+ PCs, details are scarce at the moment. However, Nvidia has partnered with Microsoft to bring new AI-based APIs in the Windows Copilot Runtime to PCs with GeForce RTX GPUs. This collaboration expands the use of these APIs beyond Copilot+ PCs with 40 TOPS-capable NPUs. Users can expect these capabilities to arrive later this year, and compatibility with Copilot+ PC features like Recall will follow at an unspecified time. Nvidia is also collaborating with AMD to bring a new generation of GeForce RTX AI PCs to the market. Additionally, software companies like Adobe, Blackmagic Design, and Topaz are utilizing Nvidia's APIs to AI-accelerate their popular creative applications. The newly announced RTX AI PC laptops from ASUS and MSI boast powerful features, including up to GeForce RTX 4070 GPUs and energy-efficient systems-on-a-chip with Windows 11 AI PC capabilities. Nvidia assures that these Windows 11 AI PCs will receive a complimentary update to Copilot+ PC experiences once they are available.