Nvidia chips: “PC completely reinvented”: Microsoft and Nvidia present notebooks that make AI usable without the Internet

San Francisco. It was a rare scene: Jensen Huang from Nvidia and Satya Nadella from Microsoft sat on a stage in San Francisco on Wednesday, the heads of the most valuable and fourth most valuable companies in the world. Together, their companies have a market capitalization of around $9.5 trillion on the stock market - and the product presented today is also about top values.

Together, the company bosses promoted the new top model from Microsoft's laptop family called “Surface Ultra”. It is equipped with Nvidia's high-performance chip “RTX Spark”. The goal: The “Windows 11” operating system is to become a platform for so-called agents, i.e. automatically running programs based on artificial intelligence (AI).

These agents are intended to take on tasks such as writing instructions for computers (code) or managing complex business projects, all without putting cybersecurity at risk. “We are building the safest platform for agents,” promised Nadella.

Microsoft is also attacking its arch-rival Apple: According to the company, the “Ultra” answers local queries to AI models twice as quickly as Apple’s competing model “MacBook Pro M5”. Videos are reportedly created six times as fast. “We have completely reinvented the personal computer,” Huang said.