Microsoft is ready with its first Surface PCs featuring a dedicated Copilot button on the keyboard for quickly accessing the chatbot. More importantly in the “year of the AI PC”, there are two new Surface devices — the Surface Pro 10 for Business and Surface Laptop 6 for Business featuring Intel’s latest Core Ultra processors and a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) to accelerate some existing and upcoming AI-powered features in Windows 11. The company is calling them “the first Surface AI PCs built exclusively for business”.

The Surface Pro 10 for Business looks like the Intel version of the Surface Pro 9 but there are plenty of changes on the inside. The Surface Laptop 6 for Business has an additional USB-C Thunderbolt 4 port and an optional smart card reader. There’s an option between Core Ultra 5 135U and Core Ultra 7 165U options, alongside a base spec of 8GB of memory that’s configurable all the way up to 64GB of RAM.

As for the Surface Laptop 6 for Business, there is Intel’s Core Ultra H-series chips, which are designed to deliver desktop-grade performance. Businesses will be able to pick between the Core Ultra 5 135H and the Core Ultra 7 165H, 8GB of RAM on the base model which is configurable up to 64GB, and storage that starts at 256GB Gen4 SSD up to 1TB.

Microsoft Surface Pro 10 for Business

The new machines are coming weeks after Apple announced MacBook Air laptops that come with an upgraded Neural Engine accelerator in the custom M3 chip. “MacBook Air continues to be the world’s best consumer laptop for AI,” Apple said in a statement. But Microsoft is not immediately releasing these Surface models for consumers.

Microsoft is expected to add many AI features to Windows later this year, and these two new devices will be ready for them. Microsoft plans to hold a special Windows and Surface AI event on May 20, where Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will share the company’s “AI vision” for both software and hardware.