Windows 11’s new update will add a bunch of AI features

Copilot Vision tin scan each of the apps and webpages you person unfastened connected your screen.

Microsoft is releasing respective caller AI features for Windows 11, including its Copilot Vision instrumentality that tin scan everything connected your screen. The features, which are gradually rolling retired to everyone now, besides see tools that are exclusive to Copilot Plus PCs.

For starters, each Windows 11 users tin present entree Copilot Vision done the Copilot app, which uses AI to analyse the contented connected your screen. With the tool, you tin inquire questions aloud astir what you’re seeing crossed aggregate apps and webpages that are unfastened connected your screen. You tin besides inquire it however to implicit circumstantial tasks connected your computer, similar however to amended the lighting connected a photo. Microsoft archetypal began testing a much constricted signifier of this diagnostic past year.

Additionally, users with Snapdragon-powered Copilot Plus PCs tin entree an AI-powered “agent” wrong the Settings app. This allows you to hunt for a circumstantial mounting with earthy language, specified arsenic “I privation to alteration quiescent hours” oregon “connect Bluetooth device.” If the cause is susceptible of carrying retired the task, it volition connection to implicit it connected your behalf.

Microsoft is making its AI-powered “Click to Do” preview much utile connected Copilot Plus PCs, too. This feature, which surfaces erstwhile users clasp down the Windows cardinal and left-click connected an app, text, website, oregon different portion of content, is designed to assistance you rapidly implicit actions, similar summarizing a highlighted paragraph. As portion of its update, Microsoft is rolling retired respective caller actions you tin execute with Click to Do, including practicing speechmaking fluency and pronunciation with its Reading Coach tool, drafting a papers successful Microsoft Word utilizing Copilot, and scheduling a Teams meeting.

Other features coming lone to Copilot Plus PCs see a caller AI-powered sticker generator successful Paint and an entity prime instrumentality successful the app that lets you abstracted and edit circumstantial parts of an image. There’s besides a caller AI lighting enactment disposable successful Photos for Snapdragon-equipped Copilot Plus PCs, on with a “perfect screenshot” instrumentality wrong the Snipping Tool that uses AI to “precisely seizure contented connected your screen.”

Microsoft is besides releasing immoderate features that aren’t related to AI crossed each Windows 11 PCs, including a useful colour picker wrong the Snipping Tool and a caller mechanics that allows PCs to automatically hole issues causing unexpected restarts.

Microsoft says it volition rotation retired each of these features “over the adjacent month.” Some of them are already disposable successful Windows’ caller non-security preview update and arsenic updates that you tin download successful the Microsoft Store.