Local AIs, like Google Gemini Nano and Mistral, look to be one of the big areas of innovation in 2024, and may make their way into Copilot. From Windows Report:

A local AI is an AI model capable of running on local hardware (otherwise known as regular hardware), without the need to connect to the cloud for processing…

Microsoft turning Windows Copilot into a local AI would be possible in future Windows versions, when those will be built in a way that would require a stronger system overall, as AI in itself, can be quite demanding. With this being said, Copilot might become local, once Windows devices are powerful enough to handle it without impacting the Windows experience.

Will it come? Possibly. Will Microsoft still want to keep its hands on all of the data being uploaded to its AI for analysis? You can bet on it.

Read the report here.