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Quentyn Kennemer

Quentyn Kennemer

Former Commerce Writer

Former Commerce Writer

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    DaVinci Resolve can use Copilot Plus PCs’ neural processing unit to apply AI color corrections.

    We saw the video editor’s new feature demoed at Microsoft’s Surface event in Richmond, where new Copilot Plus Surface Laptops and an updated Surface Pro with Qualcomm’s AI-ready chips have been announced.

    The demo suggests the CPU and GPU won’t have to break much of a sweat, if any, when offloading tasks like these.

    Davinci Resolve demo on stage at Microsoft Surface event
    Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge
    Quentyn Kennemer
    Quentyn Kennemer
    Adobe brings its full Creative Cloud suite to Microsoft’s new Copilot Plus laptops.

    Native Arm64 versions of Photoshop, Lightroom, Firefly, and Express are available starting today, Adobe announced at the Surface event going on in Richmond right now. Illustrator and Premiere Pro won’t be far behind with June arrivals.

    New Copilot Plus laptops and tablets with the architecture will be able to run the apps as soon as they arrive.

    Photo of stage with Adobe logos at Microsoft Surface event
    Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge
    Quentyn Kennemer
    Quentyn Kennemer
    Gemini 1.5 Flash speeds up Google’s AI model without many sacrifices.

    The faster version of its next-gen large language model offers similar multimodal reasoning and long context capabilities to Gemini 1.5 Pro (also announced today) but optimized for low-latency responses and overall efficiency.

    Google announced Gemini 1.5 Flash is available for developers to try in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI today, with 1 million tokens to start and 2 million available upon request.

    Google speaking engineer on stage
    Screenshot: Google
    The Verge’s 2024 Mother’s Day gift guide

    We found a collection of unique gift ideas that go beyond the flowers and chocolates that typically rule the day.

    Quentyn Kennemer