Microsoft upgrades PC keyboard to include AI Copilot key

Microsoft Corp. upgraded its Windows keyboard to include AI Copilot key to activate the service, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.

The new Copilot key sits to the right of the space bar and is the first change to the Windows keyboard layout since Microsoft added the Windows/Start key in 1994.

The company will show off the new Windows 11 computers with the Copilot button in the coming few days at the CES technology conference.

The new feature is set to help users create images, write emails, and summarise text with the help of AI.

“AI will be seamlessly woven into Windows from the system, to the silicon, to the hardware,” Microsoft’s consumer chief marketing officer, Yusuf Mehdi, said in a blog.

According to Bloomberg, Microsoft has spent the past year retooling its products to fit within the new AI technology to generate new content from massive datasets.

Their renovated products now include Windows, Office, Bing search, security software, and customer and finance products.