{"id":150957,"date":"2025-11-20T23:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/150957\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T23:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:08:11","slug":"microsofts-ai-powered-copy-and-paste-can-now-use-on-device-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/150957\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s AI-powered copy and paste can now use on-device AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft is <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/powertoys-0-96-is-here-endpoints-for-advanced-paste-metadata-support-for-powerrename-and-more\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upgrading its Advanced Paste tool<\/a> in PowerToys for Windows 11, allowing you to use an on-device AI model to power some of its features. With <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/PowerToys\/releases\/tag\/v0.96.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 0.96 update<\/a>, you can route requests through Microsoft\u2019s Foundry Local tool or the open-source Ollama, both of which run AI models on your device\u2019s neural processing unit (NPU) instead of connecting to the cloud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">That means you won\u2019t need to purchase API credits to perform certain actions, like having AI translate or summarize the text copied to your clipboard. Plus, you can keep your data on your device.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Along with support for on-device AI, you can now configure Advanced Paste to work with multiple other online models, including Azure OpenAI, Gemini, and Mistral. The tool previously only supported OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">There\u2019s a new design tweak for Advanced Paste, too, as it now shows your current clipboard content and includes a model selection drop-down menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft is upgrading its Advanced Paste tool in PowerToys for Windows 11, allowing you to use an on-device&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,1071,43,216,80,1072],"class_list":{"0":"post-150957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-microsoft","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-tech","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-windows"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}