Gamingdeputy reported on April 27 that Microsoft is working with multiple OEM manufacturers to promote AI PC. In the future, Windows systems can achieve context awareness across any application and interface.and remember all operations performed by users on the PC to further improve user efficiency and search experience.
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The key indicator to measure whether a device is an AI PC is AI Explorer. Gamingdeputy has previously reported on the specifications required to run AI Explorer, but what exactly is AI Explorer? What can it do?
AI Explorer can remember all user operations
The source said that AI Explorer can record all the user's operations in the background, such as what application the user is currently viewing and which interface the user is in. This function will record and classify everything it sees, and can summarize it into analysis content for subsequent operations.
For example, when a user opens the Windows version of the WhatsApp application and has a chat conversation with a friend, AI Explorer will record and remember the content on the screen, and use AI to sort out and summarize the relevant content so that the user can process it later.
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AI Explorer can also summarize conversations, emails, web pages, and general UI interfaces by asking during or after the fact.
Most of the AI Explorer experience will be done locally and will not connect to the cloud to process information. This is important for privacy reasons, but also for performance reasons. To reduce latency, AI Explorer will rely on the NPU chip to process recorded content.
Users will be able to filter out AI Explorer process logging for specific applications, or disable AI Explorer entirely.
Search anything using natural language
AI Explorer's UI sits at the top of the screen and allows users to recall memories based on entered search criteria, sources said. Because AI Explorer records and catalogs everything you do on your computer, anything can become something you can search for.
For example, a user browsed a favorite product a few days ago, or searched for a page about dinosaurs, but cannot remember the name of the website? Just type “Show me pages about dinosaurs that I viewed a few days ago” and AI Explorer will bring them up.
How about talking about the Fallout TV show with a friend, but you can’t remember who it is or what app you used? Type “Find my conversations about the Fallout TV show,” and AI Explorer will pull up those chats and the times at which they took place.
Notably, AI Explorer is able to search for things using natural language. Users will no longer be limited by strict search terms that must produce accurate results. If you're looking for a document that your colleague Bob sent you on Slack, just type “Find the document that Bob sent me on Slack a few weeks ago” and relevant results will appear.
Contextual awareness across applications
Not only does AI Explorer remember what you do on your computer, it also analyzes what's currently on the screen and provides contextual suggestions and tasks based on what it sees.
For example, if you're viewing an image in an app or web page, AI Explorer can present a suggested task, such as “Remove the background of this image using Paint,” that can be launched with just one click.
Users can also ask AI Explorer to compare two documents on the screen, which will rely on Microsoft Copilot to create the comparison, which can also read, understand and help craft responses to emails or conversations.
Windows 11 The Build 26200 preview further highlights the configuration requirements for AI Explorer:
ARM64 CPU
At least 16GB RAM
System hard drive at least 225 GB
Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus with NPU
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