At the Copilot AI and Surface event last May, Microsoft unveiled Recall, an AI-powered feature for Windows created to help you find everything you’ve seen on your PC. Microsoft says this feature is available exclusively on the recently launched Copilot+ PC, a device with a built-in neural processing unit (NPU) for AI tasks. Now, someone using the pseudonym Albacore has released a console Windows app called Amperage on Github. This app allows you to run Recall even on older computers where this feature is not officially supported.
This tool can only enable Recall on computers with Arm64-based SoCs. That means it must be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon, Microsoft SQ, or Ampere chipset. Users should also ensure that they are running Windows 11 version 24H2 build 26100.712 as older and newer beta versions of the OS do not have the necessary components to enable the feature. like The Verge However, future iterations of the tool could unlock recalls for more devices, as AMD- and Intel-based Copilot+ PCs are expected to launch later this year.
I could have used Recall to work on this bad boy 🙂
Snapdragon 7c+ Gen3, 3.4GB RAM, no NPUI’ll be making a tutorial soon, it’s surprisingly good even at such low specs 😊 If you have any questions I’ll do my best to answer them ✍️ pic.twitter.com/zzswm44Hy1
— Albacore ☁️ (@thebookisclosed) May 25, 2024
Recall works by taking a snapshot of your PC while you’re at it, saving it locally on your computer, and then using a local multimodal compact language model to recognize text, images, and video on that PC. If you want to find images, websites, documents, emails, etc. that you previously viewed on your PC, you can search the Recall timeline. Microsoft said it will work even if users enter vague context clues in case they don’t remember the exact phrase or description. And because snapshots taken by Recall are stored locally and offline, your data stays private and safe.
