On January 22, in a high-end interview with "Seeing 2033", Ablikim Ablimiti (hereinafter referred to as "Amu"), vice president of Lenovo Group and vice president of strategy and business development in China, pointed out that AI PC, as a personal AI assistant for natural language interaction, will give users the most power ever and comprehensively improve people's work, learning and life experience for the first time. #联想AI PC# #联想aipc#
At the same time, Amu also worked with Gao Yu, general manager of Intel's China Technology Department, and Feng Dagang, CEO of 36Kr, to comprehensively and deeply analyze the development of AI PCs, and analyze the evolution direction and landing problems of AI PCs. #联想全栈智能#
Amu pointed out that as the ultimate carrier in the next decade, AI PC is a next-generation PC that embeds a "personal agent" locally in the terminal, can interact with natural language, can run a "personal large model" locally, and integrates hybrid AI computing power and an open AI application platform, which can reliably protect data security and personal privacy, and become a personal AI assistant for users like twins. #联想方案服务#
AI PCs will play the role of individual digital twins, reconstructing the user experience of individuals in the AI era, and driving a new round of industrial transformation.
- Amu
Over the past 40 years, Lenovo has continued to introduce PC products that have revolutionized the user experience and firmly occupied the leading position in the PC, and now with generative AI and large models sweeping all walks of life, the PC industry is once again ushering in a historic change. In the new era led by AI PCs, Lenovo has also placed higher expectations on it. In this regard, Amu said that Lenovo will work with ecological partners to create a rapid popularization of AI PCs, truly make AI benefit everyone, and promote the vision of "AI For All" to reality.
"In the era of the Big Bang of AI, what will be the first terminal to carry AI capabilities?"
Faced with this problem, Amu recalled two revolutionary waves in the history of PC development: Pull the timeline back to 1980, when the first wave of technological revolution of the PC coincided, benefiting from the "miniaturization and graphics" technology, the personal computer was first proposed, and the computer became popular.
With the further development of network communication technology and mobile computing technology, the wave of "networking and mobility" led the second technological revolution at the turn of the century, allowing local computers to enter a new era of interconnection and free access to content from all over the world.
Now, under the new wave of industrial transformation led by AI large models, PCs will once again assume the mission of bringing users epoch-making new AI experiences, becoming the first terminal of AI inclusiveness, so that everyone can enjoy the exclusive AI capability extension in the era of large models.
The historical mission of the PC is determined by the technical characteristics of generative AI and the natural properties of the PC. From the perspective of technical characteristics, today's AI large model technology can carry out multi-modal natural language interaction, and still has the ability to serve general scenarios after compression, which requires strong AI computing power for inference, and needs to fine-tune and personalize services based on personal data and privacy information.
On the other hand, the PC is the terminal carrier: first, the PC has the natural human-computer interaction conditions of all modes, and is a personal general device that can carry the most full scene, and the PC is the strongest personal computing platform so far, which can carry the computing power required by the AI large model, and at the same time, the PC is also the largest storage capacity and the most trusted security terminal.
As Amu said: "Almost all the large models used by users today are cloud large models, but if you want to get a stunning, you-oriented answer, I am afraid that you need to allow it to access your personal data, so that there is a requirement for the AI large model to be implemented locally, and at the same time to ensure data security." The PC, as the most powerful personal computing platform to date, is perfectly suited to meet these needs. To sum up, it is logical that PC has become the best carrier of AI inclusion under the current wave of technology.
As the first terminal to combine AI and PC, AI PC will also bring a new experience to users. In the program, Amu gave a specific explanation of the definition of AI PC, he said: "AI PC is a next-generation PC that embeds 'personal agent' locally in the terminal, can interact with natural language, can run 'personal large model' locally, and integrates hybrid AI computing power and an open AI application platform, which can reliably protect data security and personal privacy, and become a personal AI assistant for users like twins." ”
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Through the implementation of adjoint multimodal natural language interaction, the powerful reasoning ability of the personal large model is used to understand the intent of the task requirements, and then a complex task is disassembled into multiple sub-tasks for chain processing.
Just like the development process of any new thing, the development of AI PC is also a gradual and iterative process.
Amu pointed out that it is currently in the AI Ready stage, where the AI PC hardware platform has a certain amount of hybrid AI computing power of CPU+GPU+NPU, which can support terminal manufacturers and third-party application developers to innovate the terminal AI experience, and the performance of the product has been further improved, but it does not yet have the complete characteristics of AI PC.
Amu further explained that after the AI Ready stage, the AI PC will also iteratively grow and enter two more mature stages: the first is the AI Explore stage, which is characterized by the embedding of hybrid AI computing power, personal agents and personal large models embedded in AI PCs (including remote upgrades to AI Ready AI PCs), and the first batch of third-party AI applications connected to the AI applet platform, thus having AI The complete features of the PC can provide users with personal AI assistant services based on natural language interaction around core scenarios, and start a journey of co-creation and exploration with users and AI application developers.
This stage is followed by the AI Master stage, in which the hybrid AI computing power continues to improve, the performance and service capabilities of the personal large model are further improved, the AI application ecology is greatly enriched, the business model is further diversified, the scenario service scope of the personal agent is further expanded, the service experience is further upgraded, and the personal AI assistant enters the road of rapid advancement with user use and experience feedback.
As personal agents become the standard in AI PCs, the user's interaction mode will gradually transition from traditional application interaction to intent interaction. Users no longer need to manually download, install or open apps, but only need to easily call the required applets or app plug-ins through the most intuitive natural language interactions.
For example, to generate a musical score, the personal agent will directly capture it in the AI applet platform, and the grabbing selection is also determined according to the evaluation results of the intent, the overall process is completely different from the previous one, and this ability will comprehensively improve the user's creative efficiency. Amu said, "AI PCs will bring about changes in the history of dynasties. Among them, the first wave of 'killer' applications of AI PCs is creation. ”
Amu takes the document creation scenario as an example to show the process of AI PC to achieve intent understanding and interaction: the user first evokes the personal assistant interface and communicates the personal creative intention through natural language interaction, and the personal agent will automatically split this requirement into different tasks, and automatically call the corresponding plug-in to complete the task, such as matching the corresponding interview style, searching for key person information, creating document outlines, and calling document editing software for format design, etc., and the above processes will be automatically completed within the personal agent.
This breakthrough will not only greatly improve the user's work efficiency, but also bring a significant increase in the user's right to speak. "For the first time ever, AI PCs give users the most power. Amu explained that it is a very friendly step forward for users to have an exclusive personal model, personal knowledge base and AI application connection that they can control, schedule and manage. In this mode, the user must be user-centric, not agent-centric, and the user will have full control over the behavior of the individual agent. In the era of AI PCs, users will increasingly influence the evolution of products and the development of industrial ecology.
At the same time, the AI PC era will also open a new entrepreneurial model. The development of AI technology will further lower the threshold for program development, that is, users can directly create native AI applications based on large models. Amu believes that this model will be a very big opportunity for developers. It only takes a few people to complete the launch of an AI-native application, and even directly challenge the original traditional application giants. In Amu's view: "For ordinary entrepreneurs, many fields that were thought to be difficult to reach in the past, based on large models and AI, are worth rethinking. ”
The popularity of AI PCs is inseparable from the construction of application ecosystems. Amu said that Lenovo will continue to focus on the development of small programs and plug-ins to improve the personal agent application experience. In terms of AI ecological construction, Lenovo recently released the Tianxi Ecological Personal Agent Mini Program platform and started the recruitment plan. Lenovo will adhere to the concept of full openness, invite more ecological partners to build AI-native applications, and gradually upgrade the existing traditional applications to AI, and access the Tianxi AI ecosystem in the form of Agent applets. Not only that, Lenovo will also provide all-round support for developers, through the whole process of one-stop service, so that developers can worry about the whole process.
Amu said: "With the gradual standard configuration of personal agents in AI PCs, various innovative applications can be directly called up after user intent input, and because it is in the form of a small program, the entire user experience will be very lightweight and fast."
In addition, Lenovo also launched the "AI PC Pioneer Action" for developers and users, launched the "AI PC Ecological Developer Program" and the "AI PC Content Creation Competition", and jointly launched the Artificial Intelligence Innovation Application Competition with Intel, bringing a richer and more complete AI PC application ecosystem.
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While empowering users and bringing a new round of opportunities to entrepreneurs, data security is also a key topic that has been repeatedly mentioned. During the dialogue, Feng Dagang pointed out that when it comes to the topic of data security, there have always been two schools of thought in China's Internet industry: one is called the "user privacy protection school", that is, user privacy is above all else, and business models and services should be built on the basis of privacy protection, and the other group is the "user privacy school of use", that is, the priority of services before user privacy.
In this regard, Amu said that in recent years, with the continuous deepening of technology, users' awareness of sovereignty has gradually become prominent, and data security has become the top priority. "The old days of ceding the power of data privacy in exchange for a sweet experience and taking users' personal data for themselves will be phased out," he said. Data security must be fully guaranteed, so that users have the absolute right to dispose of data. ”
Based on this, while reiterating the importance of data security, Amu also introduced the protection measures of Lenovo AI PC. He believes that data must be deployed locally, and to eliminate users' concerns about data security and privacy protection, a local knowledge base and local-based reasoning are the ultimate security guarantees.
At the same time, Lenovo will adopt a device-level security strategy in hardware, and develop chip-level security solutions, and information such as faces and passwords will be completed through exclusive chip space, completely isolated from the network and computing platform, so as to ensure that "face, password and other information will not flow out of their own device".
With the rapid development of AI technology and the joint promotion of the industrial ecosystem, AI PCs will quickly land on the market and gradually become mainstream products in the market. Lenovo emphasized in the "AI PC Industry (China) White Paper" that 2024 will be the first year of AI PC.
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AI PCs (AI laptops, AI desktops) will be installed in the Chinese PC market with a new assembly ratio that will rise rapidly in the next few years, reaching 85% by 2027, becoming the mainstream of the PC market.
Manufacturers such as Lenovo are further driving this market trend. Amu said in the dialogue: "I imagine that children from childhood to three or five years old, and parents from seventy or eighty years old can use it, and I think it is necessary to make the AI PC itself available for purchase and use, and these two things are indispensable." ”
He said that at the level of "can be bought", Lenovo will work with ecological partners to create a new type of price system under the new intelligent computing, to match the degree of intelligence and the match between price, to create a new "smart price ratio"; While promoting the formation of the AI PC industry ecosystem, it also accelerates the development process of other intelligent terminal products.
"As a personal AI assistant, AI PC will not only be a tool in the future, but also a doppelganger of you, which can provide you with active services in work, study and life scenarios, and bring an epoch-making AI innovation experience. We're going to accelerate this vision and make it truly accessible to everyone. Amu said.