Microsoft says its new flagship laptop, equipped with Nvidia chips, outperforms Apple's comparable products in some AI tasks.

On October 7 local time, Microsoft announced the pricing and launch schedule for its new flagship laptop, which is equipped with Nvidia chips, and Microsoft said it outperforms comparable Apple products on some AI tasks. According to reports, Microsoft executives said at an event in San Francisco that the Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599, is now available for pre-order, and will begin shipping on October 16. The executive said that when running local AI models, the computer can process prompts twice as fast as Apple's MacBook Pro M5, and generate video up to six times faster than comparable Apple devices.