Venture Capital has released the "Intelligent Development Report of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the AI Era", which found that in addition to reducing costs and increasing efficiency, it is an urgent need for small and medium-sized enterprises to identify potential business opportunities, help enterprises make accurate decisions, improve customer experience, and even promote industry innovation. 54.2% of the core employees of small and medium-sized enterprises believe that AI technology will change the company's production and business processes, improve efficiency, and liberate business personnel from simple and repetitive tasks.
However, due to the limitations of data quality, computing power, and basic algorithm capabilities, small and medium-sized enterprises have made slow progress in the implementation of AI applications.
Behind this status quo, it is closely related to the development stage of artificial intelligence, involving the software + hardware ecology of artificial intelligence. The industry generally believes that AI PC may be expected to become the first artificial intelligence terminal to land in large quantities. The technical support launched by chip manufacturers represented by Intel is the foundation behind it.
Not long ago, Intel held the "2024 New Intel Business Client AI PC Product Launch Conference" in Beijing, sharing with 10+ OEMs and 35+ local ISV partners the six major AI application scenarios and industry applications of commercial client AI PCs, and showcasing full-stack AI solutions in education, manufacturing, and medical industries. Based on these application scenarios, the digital needs of small and medium-sized enterprises, whether it is IT management, cost reduction, efficiency increase, and production capacity, can be easily and cost-effectively realized.
This is another production revolution brought about by AI.
Solve the pain points of enterprises and accelerate the implementation of AI scenarios
Intel has worked with partners to build an AI PC ecosystem, anchored the application of AIGC in six scenarios, and launched more than 300 AI-accelerated ISV functions in design, medical, gaming and other scenarios to promote the implementation of AI technology in business scenarios, help enterprises save energy, increase efficiency, and improve productivity.
The first is device management and O&M.
AI PC management is one of the six scenario applications that Intel helps industry partners anchor, which can easily cope with AI PC management scenarios.
AI applications supported by AI PCs can make AI PC management easier and more efficient through remote management, security protection, cross-device IT management, and O&M. Small and medium-sized enterprises can apply Zhipu AI to make smart device management easier through intelligent control and Q&A, intelligent document processing, and PPT speeches and video presentations.
In addition to AI PC management, other AIGC scenarios are also very practical and convenient.
For example, AI Chatbot, based on Intel Core Ultra AI PC, can quickly add "YuanChat", which allows users to smoothly use the text creation, programming, mathematical calculation and logical reasoning capabilities of large models, and enjoy convenient and safe localized intelligent interaction.
In the AI local knowledge base scenario, RAG applications of AI local knowledge base can help users and enterprises convert local documents and materials into knowledge in knowledge-intensive fields. Transwarp's RAG framework runs natively on the AI PC platform, allowing users to use AI to build a local knowledge base for finance, and AI can even give video summaries. The "Look at Pictures and Speak" application can automatically identify and analyze image information, and even write an article around the picture according to your needs.
In the AI PC assistant scenario, the AI application can play the role of an assistant to process the PC, personal files, photos, videos, and other content. Intel's ISV partner, Real Intelligence, has launched an agent that can help users break down tasks into several steps, build a set of workflows, and complete them automatically by simply entering commands. Through the AIGC assistant "Drive Life", AI applications can be deployed and run locally and offline, and at the same time, text, voice, and multilingual contextual interaction can be supported.
A typical scenario for AI applications in small and medium-sized enterprises is the AI Office Assistant, which provides support for AI functions in a variety of work scenarios and languages through plug-ins in the Office suite to improve office efficiency. The Kutools toolkit, developed by Intel ISV partners, has revolutionized the way businesses work by integrating the power of artificial intelligence directly into office software. In Excel, the tool can use AI to intelligently perform operations, generate custom formulas, invoke matching functions, automate data analysis and chart creation, create custom functions, write VBA code, provide operation guidance, and more.
What's more, these tools are deeply optimized and customized on the local platform for Intel's AI PC terminals, and are completely based on local AI capabilities, which not only ensures the privacy of the enterprise's data, but also greatly reduces the work intensity and unleashes creativity and productivity.
AI video image processing is a common scenario for AIGC applications, and in terms of AI multimedia processing, AI PCs can easily realize image generation and post-processing, in addition, it can also generate short videos, 3D models, or holographic videos. Intel ISV Enterprise Graphics Launcher supports the use of Intel Core Ultra for AI painting creation, which greatly reduces the threshold for users to use AI painting technology. Akiba, Meow Meow and other domestic AI painting community enthusiasts have developed an AI painting launcher software "Picture World Launcher", which greatly reduces the threshold for the use of AI painting with the help of Core Ultra core graphics acceleration.
There are reports that large models will trigger a white-collar industrial revolution. If AIGC is a new quality production tool, AI PC as an AI terminal is the infrastructure for the implementation of new quality production tools. Intel and its industry partners anchor six scenarios, which will enable AIGC and AI PCs to promote and pull each other and achieve a positive development cycle.
Empower the digital transformation of industries
In addition, Intel helps local ISVs build full-stack AI solutions based on the power of AI PCs to meet the common needs of enterprises, and provide assistance for the digital upgrade of the education, manufacturing, and medical industries.
In the education industry, the education model based on Intel's AI PC technology can greatly improve the efficiency of teachers' lesson preparation, improve the quality of lesson preparation, alleviate the contradiction between teachers and students, and promote the sharing of high-quality educational resources.
In the medical and pharmaceutical industry, the AI large model adapted to Intel AI PC covers the entire drug development process from target discovery, small molecule generation to clinical outcome prediction, etc., to achieve localized operation, and can quickly and safely generate comprehensive analysis reports. Traditional pharmaceutical companies need a 10-year cycle to develop a new drug, and the R&D cost is about 2 billion US dollars.
In the rehabilitation and elderly care industry, which has attracted widespread social attention, the industry is based on the local computing power of AI PCs, quickly completes the assessment of the health of the elderly through AI technology, and provides rehabilitation and fitness exercise guidance, and uses technology to empower the health care of the elderly.
In addition, AI PCs can provide more secure support for government office scenarios. Government office scenarios have higher requirements for security and require localization of computing power. AI PC terminals are very suitable for deploying local large models, which not only reduces costs, but also improves the efficiency of government affairs and ensures office security.
The powerful computing power of AI PCs has made it a trend to localize and terminate large models and AI applications. For enterprises, the localization of AI has enabled enterprises to achieve all-round improvements in cost, security, and efficiency, and with the implementation of AI applications and large model scenarios, AI PCs will become the standard office configuration in all walks of life.
Support device-side AI running The development of AI PCs is unstoppable
Zhicong Wang, vice president of Intel's marketing group and general manager of China, said, "New quality productivity accelerates industrial transformation. Providing advanced tools for digitalization and intelligence for productivity is the main front for advanced technologies such as AI to promote new quality productivity. The birth of the Intel Core Ultra processor marks the full entry of the PC into the AI era. Through six AI scenarios + AI industry applications, we and the industry will dig deeper into the potential of local commercial AI PCs in vertical fields, open the era of AI PCs for all, and let the capabilities of 'artificial intelligence+' benefit thousands of industries." ”
Behind the powerful application, Intel seized the opportunity to extend the AI features of the Core Ultra processor to the commercial field, and launched the vPro platform of the Intel Core Ultra processor for commercial AI applications.
Intel Core Ultra processors are already well-known on the C-side. Its powerful CPU+GPU+NPU three AI engines can carry 20 billion parameter LLMs to run locally. The powerful performance cores and efficiency cores in the CPU deliver higher data throughput and an order of magnitude faster performance. For users who need video editing, Intel Arc Core Graphics delivers twice the performance and power consumption ratio, and doubles the speed of video editing. In addition, the design based on Intel 4 process technology and 3D high-performance hybrid architecture, coupled with the support of the neural network processing unit NPU for continuous AI applications, has also achieved an exponential increase in battery life.
This processor represents Intel's most significant architectural change in 40 years, and its performance is unquestionable. On the personal side, it not only has superior performance, but also lowers the threshold for AI experience. Extending to the commercial field, it has made many revolutionary upgrades to AI PCs.
According to the actual application of AI PCs, Intel has proposed three major rules: economy, physics, and data confidentiality. The so-called economy refers to the localized processing of AI data, which can greatly reduce the cost of cloud services. The law of physics refers to the significant increase in the transmission speed of the cloud and the device, and the timeliness and accuracy of AI services have been leaped forward. The data confidentiality rule refers to the AI PC that enables AI applications or large models to run locally, protecting the user's data privacy and security.
The industry generally believes that hybrid AI is the future development trend of AI. Hybrid AI refers to the collaboration between device-side AI and cloud-based AI. Intel's three major laws support the implementation of device-side AI, and AI PCs that meet side-side AI will usher in a new round of development.
Intel has mobilized all the ecological resources to boost the industry. Intel also launched two new initiatives at the conference, including the launch of the AI PC Developer Program, and the inclusion of independent hardware vendors in its AI PC Acceleration Program, to promote the development of the AI PC industry by building an ecosystem.
The terminal revolution triggered by AI has sounded the clarion call, and the industry generally believes that AI PC will be the first terminal for AI inclusive landing.
IDC predicts that China's PC market will end its negative growth due to the arrival of AI PCs and grow steadily in the next 5 years. AI PCs will increase rapidly in the next few years to reach 85% in the Chinese PC market, becoming the mainstream of the PC market.
2024 is the first year of large-scale shipments of AI PCs, and a new round of competition has begun. Will Intel rely on its ecological and channel advantages to pull away from competitors? It's a lot to keep an eye on.