Microsoft is getting its own AI-powered photo search

Microsoft's upcoming Photos app is getting AI image search so that it can spot and classify objects, much like Google Photos and Apple Photos can. Spotted by Windows Central, the latest Insider Preview version of the app now has a search bar that you can use to enter terms like "flower," "wine bottle," and "bar." It will then use a cloud-based image recognition algorithm to pick and sort out those items in your photo collection, much as the rival apps do. The first time you use it, the Microsoft Photos will index everything, a process that takes about a second per image, Windows Central notes. Afterwards, all the indexing is stored locally, so you can search and sort by objects, colors and other terms very rapidly.