Windows chief sees AI bridging the cloud, PCs

So far, Microsoft has show AI living in the cloud. AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm want AI to live on the PC, powered by their own processors. Does that pose a potential conflict? At AMD's "Advancing AI" presentation, where the company launched the Ryzen 8040 family of AI-enhanced mobile processors, Microsoft's chief Windows executive said that cloud AI and local AI could coexist. Microsoft not only supplies licenses for millions of Windows machines, but also sells Microsoft 365 subscriptions to even more -- 76 million consumer subscribers, as of the current third calendar quarter of 2023, with commercial growth of 14 percent on top of that.