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Microsoft adds new AI Copilot button to Windows keyboards in device’s first change in 30 years

Microsoft is adding a new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot button to some Windows keyboards to help users more easily participate in what the company calls an “AI transformation.”

Starting this month, some computers with the Windows 11 operating system will have redesigned keyboards with a “Copilot key” that launches Microsoft's AI companion, Microsoft's executive vice president and chief consumer official said. marketing director Yusuf Mehdi said in a blog post on Thursday.

The new keys mark the first major redesign of Windows PC keyboards in nearly 30 years, and Mehdi says that “2024 will be the year of the AI ​​PC.”

“About 30 years ago, we introduced the Windows key to PC keyboards, allowing people around the world to operate Windows,” the executive said. “We see this as a new transformational moment in Copilot's journey with Windows, where Copilot becomes his gateway to the world of AI on his PC.”

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Microsoft is adding new buttons to PC keyboards to improve users' ability to use artificial intelligence chatbots. (Microsoft)

The Copilot button will be unveiled later this month at the CES technology trade show in Las Vegas, but Microsoft has not said which computer manufacturers will add it.

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The Copilot key is Microsoft's first major change to PC keyboards since the addition of the Windows key in the 1990s. (Microsoft)

The company says the key will be available to users later this month on some of its devices, including upcoming Surface devices.

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Microsoft's efforts to expand the AI ​​experience for PC users came after the New York Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming that the companies used the paper's content to train artificial intelligence models without permission, and in the process accused the paper of This was done after a lawsuit was filed for copyright infringement.

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Microsoft is an investor in OpenAI, and the two companies have a close relationship.

Fox Business' Eric Revell contributed to this report.

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