How to watch the Microsoft Build 2024 keynote live on May 21

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Build 2024 keynote live on May 21

Springtime means it’s keynote season in the tech world, and in 2024, that means “time to show off your AI bona fides.”

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and OpenAI have already revealed big new upgrades to Gemini and ChatGPT this month, and now it’s time for

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Build. The tech giant’s annual developer conference kicks off with a keynote slated for Tuesday, May 21 at 12 PM ET/9 AM PT, and you can watch the entire event live on

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(which is also embedded below) and at

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(registration required). What about that

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Surface event you may have heard about? Well, that’s actually happening a day earlier: Monday, May 20. Confused? Don’t worry, here’s the tl;dr version of what to expect, summarized from our more in-depth What to expect from

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Build 2024: The Surface event, Windows 11 and AI.

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Surface products expected: Monday, May 20

One day before the official Build keynote,

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is hosting a more intimate event for journalists at which it plans to reveal its “AI vision across hardware and software.” That event won’t be livestreamed, but Engadget will have full coverage as it unfolds.

The rumor mill strongly suggests that we’ll see new consumer-targeted Surface PCs. And unlike the enterprise-centric models like the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 introduced back in March, these new models may be powered by updated Qualcomm Snapdragon chips – Arm chips that run cooler and offer far better battery life than their Intel and AMD equivalents, but often at the expense of reduced app compatibility and processing speeds.

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Build keynote: Tuesday, May 21

The thought is that

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is following the template that its fellow tech giants have demonstrated this season: get the hardware announcements out of the way first, clearing the runway for an all-AI showcase at the developer conference. That’s what happened with Apple and

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in recent weeks, as they respectively revealed new iPads weeks before the WWDC event in June, and a new Pixel 8a phone in the days leading up to

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I/O.

What’s that mean for Tuesday? Last year’s Build announcements give you the general flavor:

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’s Copilot AI (possibly with more impressive OpenAI-powered smarts) integrated into even more of

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’s DNA, likely both at the device level (Windows) all the way up to the company’s massive cloud infrastructure.

While much of Tuesday’s news will be through the prism of

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’s developer community, we’re looking forward to giving you the big picture on what it all means for end users – and how it dovetails with the hardware announcements we expect to hit on Monday. Stay tuned.

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