A leaked promotional video shows that Microsoft will unveil new OneDrive features with a possible focus on AI next month.
Important points
- Microsoft is unveiling new features for OneDrive on October 3, with a possible focus on integrating AI to help users manage their files.
- The company has been emphasizing AI in its recent announcements, and integrating AI into OneDrive would be a logical next step.
- There may be more AI-related announcements at the upcoming Surface event.
Microsoft already has some big news for its Surface event later this month, but it looks like the company may have some more surprises in the works beyond hardware. A leaked video shared by X (Twitter) user WalkingCat shows that the company is unveiling new features for OneDrive on October 3.
The 15-second video obviously doesn’t say much more than that, but the search bar does show the text “Help me organize,” which could be a hint at AI integration leveraging large language models. To help users manage their files. Microsoft already has Microsoft 365 Copilot to help users with all sorts of work-related tasks within its suite of Microsoft 365 apps, and given that the company has been all about AI for the past few months, it seems that OneDrive has some kind of integration. would be an obvious next step.
It’s certainly interesting that Microsoft would focus on OneDrive alone for one of its events, but it would be part of a larger set of announcements related to Microsoft 365 or the company’s AI efforts. It’s unclear what kind of AI features OneDrive might deliver for users, but things like automatically creating folders based on content types or a file’s creation date would be obvious candidates.
This year alone, we’ve seen things like Bing Chat, Microsoft Designer, Bing Image Creator, and Window Copilot make their debuts, and it wouldn’t be surprising to see more announcements on that front. In fact, AI is also expected to take center stage at the aforementioned Surface event. Recently, we’ve also heard reports of possible AI features in Windows 11 apps, such as optical character recognition (OCR) in the Camera and Snipping Tool apps, or object extraction in the Photos app. We can’t wait to see what else the company has in store for the rest of the year.