Microsoft releases new Nvidia-chip AI PCs with revamped Windows 11
THE SO WHAT
Baking AI model and agent execution into Windows 11 on Nvidia-powered Surfaces turns the client OS into an orchestration layer for local workloads. Enterprise IT should assume heterogeneous inference—some flows on-device, some in cloud—and revisit where data actually needs to live.
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