Microsoft has opened pre-orders for its new Surface Laptop Ultra. Alongside the device, the company detailed its AI roadmap for hybrid intelligence for Windows. The Laptop Ultra utilises NVIDIA’s RTX Spark Superchip and is built from the ground up.
Microsoft advertises the machine as the “most powerful Surface Laptop ever”. The Surface Laptop Ultra offers an NVIDIA Grace CPU with up to 20 cores and an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU with up to 6,144 cores, paired with up to 128 GB of unified memory. The company claims the device can run “AI models exceeding 120B parameters locally, with up to 1 petaflop of AI performance.”
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The Surface Laptop Ultra offers a 15-inch touchscreen and is claimed to deliver up to 25 per cent brighter peak HDR performance compared to the MacBook Pro M5. It measures under 18mm and weighs 2.04 kg. It can run multiple on-device tasks and gets access to the CUDATM ecosystem and a complete suite of Windows AI.
Compared to previous Surface devices, it offers advanced haptic feedback. Plus, the storage is user-replaceable. As for the ports, it offers two USB-C ports, an HDMI port, USB-A, an SD card slot and a headphone jack. The Surface Laptop Ultra will start at $2,599 on Microsoft’s official site and will be available from October 16. It will be available in Platinum and Nightfall colourways.
Hybrid intelligence in Windows will focus on AI agents that can run locally, access the cloud and offer security in commercial use. The experience will bring “frontier-class capabilities to local PCs” and enable services such as GitHub to “route intelligently” in the OS.
Further, Copilot will be able to use local information from a user’s PC, run local models and take actions. The AI agents can write code and access files without external intervention, Microsoft said. Further, the platform also announced that Meta’s Muse AI agent will be available on Windows soon as a native app.