Microsoft pushes AI vision with new, expensive Surface laptop

Microsoft is pushing a "hybrid intelligence" future with a new Surface Ultra laptop that runs on Nvidia artificial intelligence (AI) chips, the company announced on Wednesday. The launch is part of a broader push by tech companies to release hardware that can handle more AI computing on-device and offline. 

Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO said  "Today was about multiple fantastic devices, all these things, but the trajectory for me is so clear. There will never be a moment where we will go and look and say: 'Oh, this runs locally, this runs in the cloud.' You will expect this hybrid intelligence to be everywhere and pervasive. And I think that’s what to me is pretty exciting." 

It also sees Nvidia, whose data center processors power the AI revolution, make a move into personal computing, a sector dominated for decades by chips from Intel and Qualcomm.