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Microsoft\u2019s new Windows AI features, like Auto Super Resolution<\/a> for smoother gaming, aren\u2019t exclusive to Qualcomm \u2014 Intel\u2019s Lunar Lake<\/a> and AMD\u2019s Strix Point<\/a> chips will have enough AI co-processing performance, too. But when Intel and AMD\u2019s new Copilot Plus PCs arrive this fall, no one is promising they\u2019ll ship with all or even any<\/em> of the new AI features.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Each of those laptops will require free software updates before they get Microsoft\u2019s Copilot Plus AI features, and those updates won\u2019t necessarily even arrive before the end of 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cIntel Lunar Lake and AMD Strix PCs are Windows 11 AI PCs that meet our Copilot+ PC hardware requirements.\u00a0We are partnering closely with Intel and AMD to deliver Copilot+ PC experiences through free updates, when available,\u201d reads a statement from Microsoft marketing manager James Howell to The Verge<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cLunar Lake will get the Copilot+ experiences via an update when available,\u201d Intel PR manager Thomas Hannaford similarly tells me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n AMD PR manager Matthew Hurwitz could also not confirm its laptops will have the features at launch. \u201cWe expect to have Copilot+ experiences by the end of 2024,\u201d he told me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Will Intel have them within 2024 at least? Neither Intel nor Microsoft would say when we probed. But all three Qualcomm rivals (Intel, AMD, Nvidia) want you to know that other existing AI features already run on their chips, and hundreds more are coming from independent software companies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n I also don\u2019t want to suggest a delay would be a bad thing \u2014 in fact, security experts are warning that Microsoft\u2019s new Recall feature<\/a>, which takes screenshots of everything you do on your computer as a generative AI memory aid, could be a disaster for security. They\u2019re pushing Microsoft to rethink that plan. Microsoft has not answered The Verge<\/em>\u2019s questions about Recall security yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n And from a more basic computing standpoint, reviewers haven\u2019t yet had a chance to validate the battery life and performance claims of this new wave of AI PCs, even Qualcomm\u2019s<\/a>. I would not personally rush to buy a Copilot Plus PC from any provider until the experts have time to weigh in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n