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India Today
6 days ago
- Business
- India Today
Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 with 5G is here but only for these buyers and it costs a bomb
Microsoft has launched a new variant of its Surface Laptop 7, and this time, it comes with built-in 5G support. But there's a catch — this version, officially called the Microsoft Surface Laptop 5G, is aimed only at business customers for now. So, if you're a regular buyer looking to upgrade your laptop with mobile connectivity, you're out of luck — at least for now. The Surface Laptop 5G starts at a steep price of $1,799.99 in the US (roughly Rs 1,55,500), and it's part of Microsoft's growing Copilot+ PC line-up for enterprise users. That price gets you 16GB of RAM, 256GB SSD storage, and the promise of fast, always-on connectivity with a dedicated Copilot key for AI-powered Surface Laptop 5G is built around a 13.8-inch PixelSense Flow touchscreen with a sharp 2,304 x 1,536 resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate. It supports Dolby Vision IQ, and for durability, the display is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 5. Under the hood, the laptop runs on Intel's Core Ultra 5 Series 2 processor, paired with Intel Arc graphics. There's also a dedicated AI Boost NPU (Neural Processing Unit), which Microsoft says can handle over 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS). That's the sort of muscle needed for tasks like real-time transcription, image processing and background blur during video calls — all done locally on the buyers can also opt for a higher-end variant with 32GB RAM, priced at $2,099.99 (roughly Rs 1,81,000). Microsoft says the laptop was designed from the ground up with 5G in mind, rather than just adding a modem as an afterthought. The Surface Laptop 5G features six strategically placed antennas that adapt to your surroundings to ensure strong and stable connections, whether you're indoors, on the move, or working remotely. It supports both Nano SIM and eSIM for global connectivity, and can also double up as a mobile hotspot. The machine weighs under 1.4kg, making it light enough to carry around without trouble. Battery life is rated for up to 20 hours of video playback or 12 hours of active web use, thanks to a 54Wh battery. Connectivity options are solid as well — Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, GPS, and of course, 5G. Port selection includes two USB 4.0 Type-C ports (with Thunderbolt 4), a USB Type-A port, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and Microsoft's proprietary Surface Connect expected for a business-focused machine, security is a big part of the offering. You get Windows Hello for face unlock, TPM 2.0 support, Microsoft Pluton security chip, BitLocker encryption, and even an optional smart card reader. The laptop runs on Windows 11 Pro, and since it's part of the Copilot+ PC range, there's a dedicated Copilot key to access AI tools Microsoft Surface Laptop 5G will be available in the US starting August 26 and comes in two colours — Black and Platinum. Regular users will have to wait and see if a consumer version becomes available later.- Ends
Mint
26-06-2025
- Mint
Microsoft launches Mu AI model for smart local tasks on Windows PCs
Microsoft has rolled out a small AI model called Mu that runs locally on Copilot+ PCs. It is designed to give users fast and accurate help by using the device's Neural Processing Unit instead of relying on cloud servers. Mu already supports the Windows Settings app for users in the Windows Insider Dev Channel. You can type natural language queries like "turn on night light," and Mu understands and responds in real time. The model has 330 million parameters and uses a Transformer encoder-decoder setup. This allows it to process input and output separately, which leads to better speed and lower delay. Microsoft claims that Mu generates more than 100 tokens per second and has much lower latency than other models of its size. Mu was trained using Azure A100 GPUs and tuned with advanced methods such as grouped-query attention and rotary positional embeddings. These help the model work efficiently even on limited hardware. To ensure Mu runs well on different PCs, Microsoft partnered with Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm. With post-training quantisation, the model was adapted to work with lower-precision formats like 8-bit and 16-bit integers. On devices like the Surface Laptop 7, Mu achieves output speeds over 200 tokens per second. Initially, Microsoft tested a larger model called Phi LoRA, which was accurate but slow. Mu, after fine-tuning, proved to be faster while still meeting the accuracy requirements. The team scaled up Mu's dataset to include 3.6 million training samples and added support for hundreds of Windows system settings. Features like prompt tuning and noise injection improved the model's ability to understand real-world queries. Mu is part of Microsoft's broader push to bring AI features directly to the device. It builds on earlier research from models like Phi and Phi Silica and will likely play a key role in future AI experiences on Windows PCs.
International Business Times
24-06-2025
- International Business Times
What is Mu? Microsoft Launches Small AI Model That Runs Fast and Private on Your PC
Technology giant Meta has moved a step ahead in making AI competition more interesting by launching a new AI tool, Mu, a small yet powerful language model designed to run directly on your computer. Unlike most AI tools, which operate on remote cloud servers, Mu utilizes your PC's Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for all of its processing, which in turn translates into faster performance, improved privacy, and no need for the internet to accomplish tasks. Mu is built for Copilot+ PCs and currently resides in the Windows 11 Settings app. It enables users to change system settings—such as screen brightness or battery saver—by simply typing or speaking natural language commands. No more digging through menus. For instance, if you say "turn on battery saver," the setting is activated immediately. Mu has just 330 million parameters, which is way smaller than other language models such as GPT-4, developed by OpenAI, a research lab known as a pioneer in natural language processing and AI. MU performs surprisingly well despite having considerably fewer parameters. It can generate 200 words per second on devices like the Surface Laptop 7. In tests on Qualcomm's Hexagon NPU, Mu processed tasks up to five times faster than many other models available on the market, making it one of the fastest in its category for real-time tasks. What sets Mu apart is its emphasis on privacy. All computation occurs in the device itself. That means your commands and data don't leave your PC, a significant benefit for individuals and businesses worried about the safety of their data. Microsoft also trained Mu to handle hundreds of system-level tasks, helping users with simple and easy-to-understand instructions. It is based on the company's Phi family of AI models, which are designed for high efficiency in limited computing environments. This makes Mu a perfect fit for devices that do not have good processing power. Currently, Mu is being tested through the Windows Insider Program. Users in the Dev and Beta Channels with supported hardware can already try it out. Microsoft is planning to broaden the application of Mu to more PCs using AMD and Intel chips. Mu is not flashy, yet it represents a smart shift in how people use their computers. It is like a quiet little helper that simply does its job when needed—quick, private, and efficient. As AI becomes a bigger part of our everyday lives, small tools like Mu might have the most meaningful impact.
Tom's Guide
22-05-2025
- Tom's Guide
Microsoft is all in on AI at Build 2025: 3 things you need to know
Microsoft's annual Build developer conference is happening this week (May 19-22) in Seattle, and I've been here in person to see it live. I trucked up to Seattle to attend Build 2025 because Microsoft occasionally debuts new hardware at its annual conference, like it did last year by unveiling the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 with Snapdragon chips inside. I was hoping to get a chance to go hands-on with new hardware, but I was out of luck—Microsoft unveiled a new smaller Surface Laptop and Surface Pro weeks before the event, and they were nowhere to be seen at Build 2025. Instead, all I heard about this week was AI. From the first minutes of CEO Satya Nadella's Build 2025 keynote it became clear that Microsoft is going hard on AI this year. Since Build is a developer conference much of the talk is about how to build and troubleshoot these systems, so it's been hard to parse how these new AI tools will impact the products and services we use every day. That said, here are the three most interesting things I've seen at Build 2025! Microsoft is rolling out a new coding agent for Github Copilot that is designed to work like an automated programmer, so ideally a coder could do things like assign annoying or repetitive tasks to Github Copilot instead of wasting human time doing the work. I got to see this AI agent in action several times during Build 2025, and it's a great example of the sort of "agentic web" that Microsoft employees have been talking up during the event. Put simply, Microsoft envisions a future where we have many AI agents running around doing work for us in the background—and the Github Copilot coding agent can do things like plan, write and test code on its own, so ideally programmers can assign it tasks they don't want to do, then check back later to review and verify the agent's work. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. The demos I've seen of this tool in action here at Build 2025 are impressive, and it raises interesting questions about how programming work will be done in the future. Microsoft Discovery is a new platform built on Azure that aims to help scientists conduct research more efficiently using AI agents. This is another example of Microsoft's "agentic" approach to AI, as Discovery is intended to let researchers create virtual teams of AI agents that can be instructed with specific data and guidelines to function as, for example, a "molecular properties simulation specialist" that can then assist with R&D and learn over time. Microsoft claims this technology is already being used at places like the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where researchers have used it to discover a new, more efficient solid-state electrolyte candidate. I couldn't tell you what that means for science, but I can tell you this pushes Microsoft's AI further into the R&D business — and that means we'll likely see more scientific discoveries with AI help. This one is a bit technical, but I think it's worth knowing about because it helps reveal where Microsoft is trying to take the future of business. The new Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning features let you more easily create and fine-tune AI agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot Studio without knowing how to code them yourself. It's the kind of thing you'll only care about if you already use Copilot Studio, as the new Tuning features let users more easily create multiple agents and use company data to train them. So while you might not be using Copilot Tuning to fine-tune an AI agent to order your morning coffee, chances are that in the next few years your coffee shop and businesses like it will be using these kinds of agents in all sorts of ways. Microsoft gives examples of law firms creating agents that can quickly generate legal paperwork using data and processes of the law firm itself, for example, and I expect companies will find inventive ways to employ these agents when this functionality starts rolling out in June to members of the Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning Early Adopter Program. If you made it this far, you know by now that Microsoft really was all about AI at Build 2025. I couldn't escape it no matter where I went, and the live demos I did see were pretty convincing. I still don't trust AI to reliably get things right, but I'm starting to see how it's being honed and adapted to try and fit into a broad variety of different businesses. As a writer I have my own concerns about AI agents getting involved in my industry, but I can't help feeling a little optimistic about projects like Github Copilot and Microsoft Discovery. More help for researchers is always a good thing (once they get these AI assistants to the point where they aren't making critical mistakes), and as someone who can't code his way out of a paper bag there's real appeal to knowing one day I'll probably be able to ask AI to do all my coding for me. Microsoft certainly thinks so, because the company is betting big on AI in 2025 and beyond.
Digital Trends
06-05-2025
- Business
- Digital Trends
Microsoft Surface Pro and Surface Laptop both have amazing discounts
Table of Contents Table of Contents Microsoft Surface Pro 11 — $800 $1,000 20% off Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 — $800 $1,000 20% off If you want a device that will maximize the capabilities of Microsoft's Copilot, look no further than Microsoft's own Surface line. The good news is that the Microsoft Surface Pro 11 and the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 are on sale right now — they're both available for just $800 instead of their original price of $1,000 from Best Buy, for savings of $200 when you buy either machine. We're not sure how much time is remaining before these offers expire, but with the growing popularity of the AI assistant and the demand for Surface Pro and Surface Laptop deals, we highly recommend proceeding with your purchase quickly. Stocks of the Microsoft Surface Pro 11 and the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 may run out at any moment, and once these offers are gone, we're not sure when you'll get another chance at them. Microsoft Surface Pro 11 — $800 $1,000 20% off The Microsoft Surface Pro 11 received an impressive score of 4.5 stars out of 5 in our review, where we described it as simply 'spectacular.' It's also on top of our list of the best 2-in-1 laptops for the same reasons, including its gorgeous 13-inch PixelSense Flow OLED touchscreen, up to 14 hours of battery life, and great performance provided by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus processor, Qualcomm Adreno GPU, and 16GB of RAM. The Microsoft Surface Pro 11 comes with a 256GB SSD, which should provide ample storage space for files and apps, and Windows 11 out of the box for access to Copilot. You're going to have to purchase the Surface Pro Keyboard if you want to use the device in laptop mode though. Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 — $800 $1,000 20% off If you want to use Copilot on a traditional laptop, go for the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7. It's not a surprise that it headlines our roundup of the best Copilot+ laptops, and it also scored 4.5 stars out of 5 stars in our review. It all begins with the fast and efficient performance that's enabled by the device's Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus processor, Qualcomm Adreno GPU, and 16GB of RAM. The Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 features a bright and beautiful 13.8-inch PixelSense Flow touchscreen with 2304 x 1536 resolution, a 256GB SSD, a solid keyboard, and a dependable haptic feedback trackpad. It also offers up to 20 hours of battery life from a full charge, for amazing portability.
