Multimodal Ai
The latest Multimodal Ai coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
GPT-5 vs Gemini 2.5: AI Titans Battle for Windows Workflows in 2025
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, OpenAI's GPT-5 and Google's Gemini 2.5 have emerged as the leading multimodal AI systems in 2025, each offering unique strengths that...
Gemini AI Dominates User Loyalty with Multimodal Integration and Productivity Gains
Google's Gemini AI is rapidly evolving from a mere chatbot into an indispensable daily workhorse, capturing user loyalty through its seamless integration across Google's ecosystem and advanced...
Grok 4 Fast: xAI's Cost-Efficient 2M Token AI for Windows Developers
xAI has launched Grok 4 Fast, a groundbreaking AI model designed to deliver cost-efficient reasoning with a massive 2 million token context window, unified architecture, and integrated tool...
Microsoft’s Copilot Avatars: Voice-Powered AI Faces, Capped at 20 Minutes Per Day
Microsoft is testing a Copilot experiment that gives the AI a face — actually, 40 faces. The new feature, called Portraits, lets users select from a set of animated 3D avatars and hold voice...
Gaming Copilot Is Now in Windows Game Bar: Here’s How to Use Microsoft’s AI Assistant Today
Microsoft began rolling out the Gaming Copilot beta to Windows PCs on September 18, 2025. The assistant lives inside the Xbox Game Bar overlay, ready to answer voice questions, analyze screenshots,...
Google’s Experimental Windows App Puts AI Search on Your Desktop—Here’s How It Works
Google has quietly started testing a native Windows application that places a powerful, AI-infused search bar directly on the desktop, summonable from anywhere with Alt + Space. The experiment,...
Google's Alt+Space Overlay Brings Lens, AI Search to Windows. Here's How It Works and What to Watch For.
What’s New Google has released an experimental Windows app that places a compact, floating search bar at your fingertips. The tool, hosted in Google’s Search Labs, can be summoned anytime by...
Microsoft Sneaks Bing Visual Search Into Edge Canary’s Desktop Bar—Camera Icon Triggers Image Lookups
A small camera icon has materialized inside Edge Canary’s floating desktop search bar on Windows 11, and it opens a direct pipeline to Bing Visual Search without ever launching a full browser...
Microsoft Copilot Chat Gains Content-Aware Side Pane Across Word, Excel, More—Now for All 365 Users
Microsoft is deploying a content-aware Copilot Chat panel directly inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote to all Microsoft 365 subscribers, not just those on paid Copilot licenses. The...
Microsoft Embeds Copilot Chat Pane in Office Apps, Turning AI Into a Workplace Utility
Microsoft has flipped the switch on a long-anticipated overhaul of its productivity suite, planting Copilot Chat directly inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. The move, part of a...
Windows 11 Build 26052: Copilot Taskbar Icon Now Animates on Copy, Accepts Drag-and-Drop Images
Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052 to the Canary and Dev channels, bringing a set of Copilot enhancements that make the AI assistant more deeply integrated into daily...
Microsoft Launches MAI-1-Preview and MAI-Voice-1: First-Party AI Models Redefine Cost, Speed, and Audio
Microsoft has fired its opening salvo in the next phase of the AI arms race, but it isn't a declaration of war on its partners. Instead, the launch of the MAI model family—MAI-1-preview and...