允中发自 CES2024
量子位 | 公众号 QbitAI
CES, the world's largest consumer electronics show, has fully entered the AI time in 2024.
Almost all of the exhibits are demonstrating how AI will be combined with hardware to transform our lives, work, and play, transforming our present and future.
But among them, the hottest and most concerned on the scene is an "old product" - PC, personal computer.
Products that everyone can't do without learning, working and playing, the species that stood at the top of the tide of the times before smartphones.
And now, with the blessing of AI, just as mobile phones have been redefined by intelligence, AI PCs have also been on the rise this year.
Ready to play, Gamer One also announced to the world: everything is ready and it's time to switch computers.
Because this will be a comprehensive innovation in productivity, no matter how complex the principles behind generative AI are, and how many platforms and applications are blooming, AI PCs will complete the "one-click application" - whether it is your weekly report, meeting summary, or PPT with pictures, AI can do it in minutes with one click.
One-click AI, with assistants per capita
True one-button AI, because the PC on display, began to be equipped with special keys for "AI".
Microsoft's Copilot, which has a physical button, Copilot in Windows 11, uses AI capabilities to provide relevant answers, summarize emails, write weekly reports, and generate images.
This button, currently named "AI On", turns on the AI companion with one click.
The functions of the three directions have basically been clarified:
First, Wen Shengwen.
Second, the Wensheng diagram.
Third, personal large models and personal AI assistants.
Wen Shengwen, the most well-known achievement of the emergence of large language model capabilities, can summon AI to help you generate content through the natural language interaction of the conversation window after one-click "AI On".
Knowledge quizzes, help generate plans and schedules, summarize meeting minutes, write weekly report summaries...... And so on is already the meaning of the topic.
But one of the most anticipated is that the AI PC will have the deployment of a local large model, and in the on-site demonstration, Wenshengwen's ability can be completed in the local network disconnection mode.
Secondly, the Wensheng diagram. The difficulty and computing power requirements are escalating, and it is said that image generation can only be networked at present, and more relies on the cloud to complete.
Even so, being able to use PC equipment to call out the application with one click, and then generate a desired picture, can still liberate the workers who have been suffering PPT with pictures for a long time from the sea of suffering, not to mention the AI-generated pictures, which can ensure the continuity of style to the greatest extent, and do not have to worry about copyright.
Is it possible to make the style of the AI and the personal style continue to merge?
This is the third clear trend direction: the personal model.
The reason why AI PC is an AI PC is not only because it provides AI capabilities, but also because it is the carrier of AI.
AI PCs come with built-in models that can help users train personalized models stored locally. With user-provided images, the AI PC can learn and create images that match the user's style and preferences. Users who like Cubism don't need to describe it to see it consistently blended in, while those who like Pop Art don't see the Cubist style in their work. Through image training, it can meet the personalized needs of users.
Combined with the personal large model deployed on the terminal, the AI PC can also realize personalized services and instant and reliable service responses in general scenarios, while ensuring data and privacy security, becoming the personal AI assistant that understands users best.
Start as an AI assistant, and then in the longer term you will be your "AI twin".
The reason why there are such different stages is related to the evolution stage of AI PC that is gradually becoming a consensus.
The AI PC is evolving in two phases:
第一阶段，AI Ready。
It is basically equipped with local hybrid AI computing power that is more targeted to AI tasks, which can provide basic guarantee for software and service innovation of AI PCs and start experience innovation.
In the initial stage, the main performance is the upgrade of the chip computing architecture, and the CPU integrated with the NPU computing unit has been introduced to the market one after another, with a higher energy efficiency ratio to achieve the improvement of computing speed, and have higher stability and reliability in the operation process.
The hybrid AI computing power of terminal devices enables AI software to process data and tasks faster, which is especially important for AI applications that require real-time responses, such as speech recognition and image processing.
The second stage, AI On.
The accumulation of software and hardware has brought about a leap in the industry, and the AI On stage has the core characteristics of a complete AI PC, and provides an epoch-making AI innovation experience in the core scenario, becoming everyone's personal AI assistant and finally the AI twin.
With the innovation of core technologies, the optimization of product experience, and the prosperity of the AI application ecosystem, AI PCs can serve a wider range of general scenarios, and can realize device-edge collaborative computing, cross-device interconnection and relay, and even fine-tune the training of individual large models in the edge private domain environment based on personal data and usage history.
Isn't it a bit of a look that starts with the end in mind and has a clear path?
Because as soon as this year, AI PC products will let you change them.
PC has an "AI refresh" moment, and the number one player is ready to supply
After generative AI took the world by storm, the PC industry chain quickly realized the opportunity for new momentum.
Traditional PCs have been unable to meet the growing demand for intelligence, but AI PCs provide users with more efficient and convenient content creation and intelligent experience with powerful computing power, advanced AI technology, and innovative interaction methods.
There is no doubt that driven by AI PCs, the application scenarios of PCs will be further expanded, driving the market scale into a new round of growth.
IDC, a third-party organization, also predicts that in the personal consumption market, AI PCs will shorten the replacement cycle of users and accelerate the arrival of the replacement wave. Within two years, the proportion of users who will replace their PCs will double to 20% or more.
In the field of personal computing, AI PCs also represent a profound industry change.
The rapid development of generative AI and large language models has fundamentally changed the way individuals interact with intelligent terminals such as computers. From typing instructions to clicking icons to natural language interactions, the AI PC becomes a digital extension and digital mirror image for every user.
At the same time, on-device AI is driving innovation in a wider range of personal computing devices, with AI tablets, AI workstations, and peripherals and peripherals for these devices also emerging as the times require, extending the AI PC family lineup.
With the trends and opportunities so obvious, the key question that remains is whether the industrial supply chain is ready.
Already！
The confirmatory answer is from Lenovo, the number one player of PC and the world's No. 1 product supplier of PC.
The transformation of AI PCs is indeed a test of the upstream, midstream and downstream of the entire computing industry supply chain.
From CPU, GPU, NPU, to operating system, to power consumption and heat dissipation, audio and video units, software and hardware capabilities, etc., there are different suppliers in the socialized division of labor system.
But on the topic of PC, Lenovo says it's ready, that's ready.
At CES 2024, Lenovo made a group military appearance, with a total of more than 10 AI PC products, expressing this kind of Already.
The Yoga series for high-end creation, the ThinkBook series and the all-in-one ThinkCentre neo Ultra for the small and medium-sized enterprise market, the ThinkPad series and IdeaPad series for personal work and study, and even the Legion series for games, have all ushered in an AI refresh and new products are ready for sale.
This aspect reflects the supply chain capabilities of the number one PC player. Whether it's the latest and most powerful i9 CPU from Intel Core, or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 GPU, or heterogeneous management related to AI chips, the supply chain challenges are solved by Lenovo, and the final user only looks at the product and delivery.
And behind this kind of delivery is the advance layout and departure of Lenovo's "Chunjiang Plumbing Duck Prophet".
It is said that as early as five years ago, Lenovo Group began to deploy ultra-intelligent computers, and now AI has been extended to various mid-to-high-end product series, and more than a year ago, AI algorithms have been embedded in the whole life cycle of Lenovo Group's PC products.
In October 2023, the new species of AI PC was first proposed by Lenovo, and it also left a classic harmonious photo of the chip giant:
Finally, now CES2024 the scene, AI PC products have begun to be displayed, and it is said that they will be mass-produced and sold within this year, starting the upgrade and replacement of traditional PCs.
As a productivity device, the PC market has been dull for many years, and many people's personal laptops, with new power, lack ...... all year round
But now, an AI PC that can significantly help improve the efficiency of work and learning has reached a milestone moment.
Yang Yuanqing, the helmsman of Lenovo Group, reviewed the entire history of personal computer development and sighed that there have been three milestones so far, one is from commercial PC to personal PC, one is from local computing devices to connecting to the Internet, and now AI PC is the third.
So, there is only one final question left:
Are you ready to change your computer?
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