Microsoft pushes AI vision with new, expensive Surface laptop

Microsoft pushes AI vision with new, expensive Surface laptop

By France 24
Publication Date: 2026-10-07 20:30:00

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 centers, where running AI is slower and more expensive.

It also sees Nvidia, whose data center 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.

He was joined onstage by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who echoed the idea that AI will be integrated into all computing going forward and on all devices.

Agentic AI, in particular, will be central to software development, Huang said, referring to…