doomroot13
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Comment · 15 days ago
Yes, but also in combination with the not-borderline-and-actually insane growth in commits and load on the platform due to AI.
Comment · 25 days ago
I don't think that's actually the case. There were some rumors flying around about this but in their recent event they actually referred to Copilot+ PCs as generally the line targeting more casual users with support for less powerful local inference. And the new devices based on Nvidia RTX Spark (and likely the more powerful solutions from AMD, Intel, Qualcomm with large unified memory) as a "Builder" class targeting developers and heavy local inference users. They also revealed a quantized version of their coding model designed to run on these devices.
So it does seem they may be somewhat working from the bottom up building smaller models or focusing on capable local inference and balancing with more powerful frontier model access.
This is a lot of marketing speak but covers much of what they revealed.
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2026/10/07/build... https://github.com/microsoft/windowsML
Comment · 25 days ago
This is actually the case. Windows ML (https://github.com/microsoft/windowsML) is the inference framework wtih vendor agnostic support for inference on CPU, NPU, and GPU. They also announced quite a bit more including an isolation solution with MXC. There's a lot of marketing fluff in the below link but it covers the recent announcements.
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2026/10/07/build...
Comment · 1 month ago
Maybe you're not familiar with Stephen Toub, the author? I'm not saying for sure he didn't use AI at all on writing this piece however he is very well known for the time and effort he puts into his technical writing. Especially the performance improvements posts he writes for every new .net release.
Comment · 2 months ago
They did also compare to Sol and the comparisons are still favorable. However, they were most favorable comparing to Opus 5 because of the cost judging by the charts.
Comment · 2 months ago
Newer Intel Panther Lake chips perform the same or very similarly on battery as they do when plugged in - as do Qualcomm chips. However, I don't know where they're seeing "consistently beat on performance and battery life by Intel Windows laptops". Multi-core performance can definitely beat M5 in some configurations but single core performance is still fairly far behind and battery life is comparable again depending on the exact specifications and design of the laptop. I've seen analysis showing M5 is still the perf/watt king though regardless of configurations.