Few could have predicted how quickly AI would transform the real world.
Not long ago, Zhou Xiaotian, a 76-year-old professor at Sichuan University and winner of the Lu Xun Literature Award for Poetry, restored the legendary life of Xue Tao, an outstanding female poet in the Tang Dynasty, in the book "Xue Tao". In the process of creation, Professor Zhou not only effectively improved the efficiency of writing with the help of AI technology, but also planned to promote traditional culture through AI. In addition, biology has been completely turned upside down by AlphaFold 3, and the 3D structures of proteins, nucleic acids (DNA/RNA) and smaller molecules can be fully modeled by AI, which is expected to help people treat cancer, immune diseases, and more.
"AI will change everything" has become the unanimous consensus of almost all mankind at present. Change continues at all levels.
"What kind of experience is it to travel with a Huawei MateBook X Pro."
An outdoor enthusiast shares his latest travel experience. At the departure stage, by asking the Huawei MateBook X Pro, the computer automatically generated a travel guide for "Sichuan-Tibet Free Travel". During the trip, the user used the Filmora feature to automatically cut out images through AI, allowing him to freely shuttle through various beautiful scenery on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway. During the high-altitude drive all the way to the west, the creation time of the clip was greatly shortened, and the freedom of travel was also released to the greatest extent.
Obviously, this is Huawei's answer to the AI era as a terminal manufacturer. Just like those young people who have the courage to pursue and act, Huawei is also trying to use AI to change the traditional PC industry that has come all the way from half a century ago - in the name of AI, it goes to the mountains and seas with users.
The HUAWEI MateBook X Pro connects the past and the present with love
As the saying goes, "Today's people don't see the ancient times and the moon, but this month once looked like the ancients." The Jinsha River on the steep Sichuan-Tibet route is also the end point of Xu Xiake, one of the founders of Chinese geography more than 400 years ago, in the article "Tracing the Origin of the River".
Xu Xiake is a person who is called "really living his life in the way he likes". Throughout his life, he traveled all over the country, recording various phenomena, humanities, geography, flora and fauna in the form of travelogues. He has lived by the Yangtze River since he was a child, and has been pursuing the source of the Yangtze River all his life, correcting the erroneous judgment of ancient documents on Minshan's "guiding the river", and proposing for the first time that the Jinsha River is the source of the Yangtze River in "Tracing the Source of the Yangtze River".
Unfortunately, due to the perennial travel, Xu Xiake died of illness in his later years, and his travel career came to an end. At the same time, with the development of modern geography, the source of the Yangtze River has been officially recognized as the Tuotuo River, which is about 1,400 kilometers away from the Jinsha River. The source of the Tuotuo River is the Jianggudiru Glacier located on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
"If it weren't for the fact that both feet were wasted, Xu Xiake would probably be the first person to trace its origins."
On May 17, Huawei terminals said this in the theme video of "To Xiake, Beloved". In the video, the younger generation, as a contemporary outdoor enthusiast, took the Huawei MateBook X Pro all the way to the north, completing the unfinished business of Xu Xiake's life - tracing the origin of the Yangtze River.
With the help of natural voice descriptions, Huawei MateBook X Pro automatically generated Xu Xiake's body appearance in his later years. In the glacial area where the network signal has almost disappeared, using the AI portrait cutout function of Huawei MateBook X Pro Filmora Filmora, the creator "to" Xu Xiake to Jiang Gudi Ru Glacier, realizing the "resurrection" of the digital world. With the help of AI minutes, audio recordings during the journey can be automatically transcribed into text.
As a result, young people crossed mountains and seas, pursued their passions, and wrote "Continuing the Origin of the River" in their own way in the era of AI. Because of Huawei's first AI PC product, the love that spans more than 400 years seems to have been inherited in some way—the love is across the mountains and seas, and the mountains and seas can be flat.
AI PC, why Huawei?
"Office is a process of creating self-worth, and the content created will bring good changes to individuals and society."
Zhu Dongdong, vice president of Huawei's tablet and PC product line, once said that Huawei hopes to elevate computer office to a level of creation, because whether it is for life or hobby, the office process is actually the process of creation. The PC is the main device and the best helper for creation, and the capabilities of device-side AI can only be maximized on the PC.
If we say, the easy-to-use and practical AI functions in "Continuing the River Chronicle" are like the crown jewel of AI PC; The most stable foundation that supports this pearl is Huawei's powerful AI underlying capabilities.
Taking the AI minutes function of the Huawei MateBook X Pro, which is frequently used in the creation process, as an example, the accuracy of speech-to-text largely depends on two points: the number of parameters of the large language model and the algorithm training of scene integration. The former determines the linguistic breadth of speech-to-text, and the latter determines the linguistic precision of the conversion.
In addition to being able to hear and remember accurately. Accurately condensing the key elements in the huge information content is also a necessary element in the creation and production scenarios of the current era, and the competition behind this is the technical hard power of a manufacturer in AI training and optimization of large models. As the first new AI profile function powered by Huawei's Pangu large model, its Chinese pre-trained large model has more than 100 billion parameters, which is almost the largest language model in the AI PC field. At the same time, in terms of training methods, Huawei incorporated a large amount of scene data to fine-tune the model. In other words, it is to enable AI to understand the context of different scenarios, such as medicine, finance, biology, human geography, etc., and "understand both market gossip and cutting-edge technology".
In order to ensure the stable operation of various AI functions, the power of computing power is also a key part of AI PC.
"AI PCs should combine big data, large models, and large computing power; The real AI PC is a large model on the device side + data integration and fusion capabilities on the device side + the integration of computing power on the device side and the cloud side, so that our PC can be truly intelligent. Zhu said that Huawei's AI PC route must be device-cloud collaboration, and Huawei has its own large model and computing power on the cloud side, which is Huawei's unique advantage.
It is worth noting that the AI capabilities of Huawei's smart PCs have long been at the forefront of the times.
- In 2019, Huawei's 1+8+N strategy was implemented. Through the underlying design, the system barriers are broken down and the intelligent capabilities can be transferred and interacted with across multiple devices, making Huawei's PCs not only PCs, but also one of the important entrances to Huawei's all-scenario intelligent strategy, enabling seamless collaboration between PCs and mobile phones.
- In 2021, the integration of super terminals and the integration of HarmonyOS's underlying capabilities and ecosystems will bring an unbounded experience, completely breaking the long-standing shackles between devices, and the smart office with Huawei's smart PC as the hub is also thriving.
- In 2022, AI capabilities have been deeply embedded in Huawei's smart PC product genes, and based on the intelligent interaction that understands you better, AI minutes, AI language, AI insight, and eight gesture interactions have injected new life into Huawei's smart PC, giving the smart PC this hub more room to grow in the future.
In 2024, as the first PC flagship of the Pangu model, we have also seen that Huawei has enabled PC products to be based on the blessing of AI, getting rid of the shackles that cannot be broken free from all year round in office scenarios, and landing new applications in life scenarios and creative scenarios.
AI PC, why Huawei? AI PC, it should be Huawei.
In the name of AI, go to the top of the mountain
In fact, Huawei's industry-leading breakthrough in AI PCs is inseparable from the company's strategic choice when it entered the PC industry.
At the beginning of its entry into the PC, Huawei said that it hoped to create more new scenarios through the connection and interoperability of AI and big data with mobile phones, PCs, wearables, and other products. In 2017, Huawei began to develop intelligent hardware scheduling technology for PC systems, focusing on smart office scenarios, and integrating AI algorithms and cross-device interconnection into Huawei's PC smart experience. Later, Huawei Super Terminal was launched, and terminal devices, including PCs, tablets, and mobile phones, can achieve seamless data flow.
With the advent of the AI PC era, the above two capabilities have become Huawei's "killer applications" in the new era. It is also because of its ability to perceive surrounding objects and society that Huawei's smart PCs have the foundation of generative AI capabilities, and thus gain wider favor in the market.
One data that can be supported is that on March 26, 2024, Canalys, a market research institution, released the latest data on the PC and tablet market in China in 2023. Data shows that in 2023, the shipment volume of the PC market in Chinese mainland will be 41.2 million units, a year-on-year decrease of 17%; Among the top five manufacturers in terms of shipments, Huawei is the only one that has bucked the trend and achieved an annual growth rate of 11%.
Just as Xu Xiake loves to explore natural forbidden areas, Huawei is also trying to challenge the old model of the PC industry through the transformation of AI technology.
Half a century has passed since the birth of the Datapoint 2200, the first mass-produced personal computer in 1971. After the era of desktop computers and laptops, the PC industry has come to the era of AI. In the new wave of the era, only PC products that understand users better can finally reach the top of the mountain.
It is worth mentioning that Huawei's smart PCs not only take care of user needs in an all-round way at the software and system levels, but also almost achieve the point of "no volume" at the hardware level.
The 14.2-inch Huawei MateBook X Pro weighs only 980g, which is 30% lighter than the previous generation, but the output power reaches 40W. The main reason for the balance between thinness and performance is that Huawei's smart PC adopts the self-developed Cloud Falcon architecture, which changes the industry's long-established single integrated motherboard structure and achieves the industry's smallest three-section motherboard, reducing the weight of the Huawei MateBook X Pro by 13% and increasing the stacking density by 26%, making it capable of accommodating larger batteries, larger fans, and larger speakers.
Because of this, the Huawei MateBook X Pro can perfectly accommodate the Intel ® Core ™Ultra 9 high-performance processor. The processor uses the latest Intel 4 advanced process technology, with Huawei Super Turbo, the system boots up within 1 second of opening the cover, enters the desktop within 9 seconds, and the export speed of Filmora 4K video clips is increased by 2.18 times.
The integration of AI into PCs has made Huawei's smart PCs a more user-friendly terminal product. The two-way innovation of hardware performance and thinness enables Huawei to go farther with users. (This article was first published on Titanium Media APP)