The AI PC revolution: 18 essential terms you need to know

These effects work in any application that uses your PC's built-in webcam, and it uses the NPU to apply these effects in a power-efficient way without draining your battery too quickly. While Windows Studio Effects are nice to have, I don't think they're reason enough to buy an AI PC, and certainly not a Meteor Lake-based AI PC. Intel's Lunar Lake is what the first AI PCs should have been. As more laptops ship with powerful NPUs, third-party application developers will likely start using them to add powerful AI features to their Windows desktop applications, putting the powerful PC hardware to use. I'm sure that's what Microsoft is hoping for, anyway. If you've gotten this far, congrats! You're now up to speed on all the most important AI PC terminologies, and you should understand enough now to see where all of this might be heading soon.