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From the start, personal computers have offered exciting new ways to boost productivity, collaboration, and creativity. Over the past 40+ years, the exponential growth in the power and functionality of PCs has continued to dramatically change the way we work, create, entertain, and play.

Today, the AI PC is a transformational shift in personal computing. With AI-enhanced software and a new generation of computing power, this PC is built to be the digital productivity partner we can all benefit from.

Now, AI is no longer just for data scientists and developers or limited to the cloud. The path to democratizing AI is giving everyone from factory engineers to artists, teachers, and others the potential to benefit from the AI applications they need—when they need them.

The Market’s First AI PC: Intel Power and Performance for Any AI Workload

Intel leads the way with its AI PC, launched in September 2023. At its heart is the Intel^® Core^™ Ultra processor, designed to optimize efficiency and performance of AI software. The CPU splits tasks between a graphics processing unit (GPU) and a neural processing unit (NPU) to handle heavy AI workloads and efficiently run sustained workloads.

What makes the Intel AI PC user experience remarkable is the ability to automate tedious daily tasks. Imagine the time savings when you can write and send email with a one sentence prompt, plan a meeting agenda, take notes, or automate image and video editing—all powered by AI.

Alongside AI PC capabilities, software delivers the functionality needed to develop and run these critical applications. Intel works with an ecosystem of more than 100 independent software vendors (ISVs), supporting their development of solutions that fully leverage the AI PC’s fast and intuitive capabilities.

Here is just a sample of how Intel partners around the world are innovating across a wide range of verticals and edge AI use cases.

Conversational AI Advances Staff and Customer Communications

One emerging area is conversational AI, which can transform the way businesses engage with their customers, offering personalized solutions while enhancing operational efficiencies, data analysis, and decision-making processes. Its partners like Dhee.ai and its Conversational VOICE AI platform make it possible across various industries. For example, the company empowers banking sales and services to better interact with customers in regional Indic languages. Dhee.ai uses AI, machine vision, and natural language processing (NLP) to facilitate seamless communication across different languages.

The Intel AI PC provides the processing power required to execute the compute-intensive tasks of speech recognition and synthesis. And the Intel^® OpenVINO^™ toolkit is key to the Dhee.ai optimized Whisper model inference latency for real-time conversations.

Other businesses that benefit from conversational AI solutions include entertainment venues and restaurants. One example is Vistry, Inc., which deploys ZenoChat, a gen AI chat assistant across multiple use cases in these segments. Running its software on the Intel AI PC and using OpenVINO optimized models ultimately enables the company to deliver a better end-user experiences at the edge.

The Vistry Order Chatbot for restaurants is both a customer and employee assistant for placing and taking orders. A virtual assistant platform includes order track and trace, predictive order make time, automated curbside check-in, and inquiries for customers and employees.

ZenoChat was recently deployed at the Formula 1 Circuit of the Americas event in Austin, Texas to facilitate communication between employees and visitors. The edge AI platform helped staff handle hundreds of distinct queries in multiple languages over the course of the three-day event.

AI PCs Power Data Security in Healthcare

Edge AI also plays a big role in data security. Healthcare is a great example, where patients’ personal information can be at serious risk. Tausight, a leader in PHI (Protected Health Information) security intelligence, helps hospitals and clinics reduce cybersecurity incidents by simplifying the detection and management of PHI risk.

The company’s situational PHI awareness platform uses machine learning, federated learning, and NLP to streamline data protection. A custom NLP model is deployed directly on an Intel Core Ultra processor-powered PC for real-time detection, possible redaction, and data protection—ensuring compliance with privacy laws and regulations. Alongside enhanced security, the platform enables improved system performance, cost savings, and efficiency—the foundation for safe and secure medical facility operations.

As organizations look to streamline workflow and optimize operations, the #AI PC also provides the powerful and #secure platform they need. @intel via @insightdottech

Low-Code Platform Democratizes AI

As organizations look to streamline workflow and optimize operations, the AI PC also provides the powerful and secure platform they need. And low-code software takes it further by simplifying and shortening edge AI application development time. Intel partner Iterate.ai, an AI platform developer, makes it possible for organizations to build their own generative AI large language models (LLMs) from internal data and documents with its GenPilot platform.

Even for complex tasks like financial planning, logistics management, answering customer emails, and interpreting documents across databases, a low-code platform enables organizations to develop custom AI applications much faster, and allows companies to select the models they prefer. Plus, low-code platforms like GenPilot make it more straightforward to maintain and customize to accommodate future use cases.

As software makers build in increasingly advanced features, the demand for more powerful hardware increases. And as hardware becomes more capable, there’s more room for software innovation. The AI PC is the future of computing, and that future is here today.

You’ll find AI PC creativity and content development, productivity, security, manageability, collaboration, and other solutions—all designed by Intel partners—on the Intel AI PC website.

Note: AI features may require software purchase, subscription or enablement by a software or platform provider, or may have specific configuration or compatibility requirements. Details at intel.com/AIPC. Results may vary.

Edited by Christina Cardoza, Editorial Director for insight.tech.