The 6 Most Interesting AI Features in Windows 11

Dominic Anderson December 13, 2024

Key Takeaways

Windows 11 has an ever-increasing array of AI features.
With these features, you can generate content, boost productivity, and more.
Some of the best AI features are Copilot, Recall, and Image Creator.

Microsoft is fully embracing AI technology and implementing it across its entire ecosystem. Here’s a look at six of the most interesting AI features in Windows 11.

Feature 1. Copilot in Windows 11

Copilot is the crowning jewel in Microsoft’s AI package at the moment. It’s the name of the tech giant’s official AI bot – the MS equivalent to ChatGPT or Gemini. It’s available as both a web app and desktop app, always within easy reach for Windows 11 users.

You can utilize Copilot in many ways. It can answer almost any question, research topics, explain complicated concepts in easy language, give you tips, recipes, workout guides, and more. It can create images too and discuss them with you.

Feature 2. Copilot in Microsoft 365

Apart from the standalone Copilot apps, there are now Copilot extensions built into all of the major Microsoft 365 apps – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc. Each one brings new AI-powered features to the table.

With Copilot for Word, for example, you can ask Copilot to draft some ideas for you or touch up your writing by making it sound more professional or neater. In PowerPoint, it can create entire slideshows for you from scratch, and in Outlook, it’ll sum up entire email threads in bite-size paragraphs.

Feature 3. Copilot in Edge

Copilot in Edge also deserves a special mention. For those who use the Edge browser as their main internet browsing tool, it’s a great addition, and it can help you interact with the web in a whole new way.

Let’s say you’re reading a lengthy article in an online newspaper, for example. You can ask Copilot to read it with you, break down some of the more complex ideas, give you a summary, or even expand on the content with follow-up questions or topics of consideration.

Feature 4. Image Creator in Paint

You can ask Copilot to make images for you. But if you want to get a bit more in-depth and edit the images you create with AI, it’s arguably better to use Paint, a classic Microsoft program that has now been updated with AI functionality.

Paint’s “Image Creator” tool works a lot like image creation in Copilot and other AI apps. You type in a prompt of what you want to see, set the desired style, and let the AI do the rest. Then, since you’re already in Paint, you can edit the AI image to suit your needs, resizing it or adding some manual touches.

Feature 5. Create Videos with AI in Clipchamp

Windows 11 AI can assist with videos, too. If you open up the latest versions of Clipchamp, the video editing and making tool, you can now access the “Auto-compose” feature, which uses AI to make videos for you in an instant – no more time-consuming edits and manual merging required.

With this feature, you can drag and drop the photos and videos you want to include, give your video a title, and set the desired style and length. Then, the AI does the rest, making a video for you in next to no time.

Feature 6. Recall

Lastly, we have the Recall feature, which is only available on new Copilot+ PCs. This exciting feature essentially makes time travel on your PC possible – it lets you go back to previous states on your PC, websites you visited days ago, messages you read last week, and so on.

You can search for content or pages you’ve looked at in the past, just using descriptive phrases like “Show me the email Mark sent about the brand meeting last week” and Recall will find what you want. No more need to spend ages digging through your browsing history or files to find things.