Windows and Surface live blog: On the ground at Microsoft’s event

We’re in San Francisco today to hear what’s next for Windows and Surface. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Windows and Surface chief Pavan Davuluri will all be holding a “conversation on how local AI will shape the next chapter of the PC.”

Microsoft and Nvidia have been working together on the new RTX Spark platform, which is focused on boosting local AI models, creative apps, and even gaming on a series of new laptops. Nvidia’s GPU expertise is getting squeezed into laptops like the Surface Laptop Ultra, and we’re about to find out exactly what it’s capable of.

Microsoft has also been on a mission this year to try and fix Windows 11. Performance and reliability has been top of mind, just as it gets ready to support this new RTX Spark platform. I’d expect we’ll hear more about this work, too.

While the Copilot Plus PC initiative was focused at consumers, the RTX Spark platform is very much designed for AI developers and creators. Today could be very much about how Microsoft and Nvidia position Windows and RTX Spark laptops to take on Apple’s MacBook Pro.

The event will kick off at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. You can watch and follow along here for minute-by-minute updates.