On March 13th, Glory held the first AI PC technical communication meeting in Beijing. The protagonist of this communication meeting is MagicBook Pro 16, which has attracted the attention of overseas media at the just-concluded MWC24. This is the first AI PC of glory notebook, but it is also an important turning point for glory to enter the full-scene AI ecology.
The industry will generally position the first year of AI PC in 2024. In terms of hardware, semiconductor manufacturers represented by Intel have launched new processors equipped with neuron network unit NPU, such as Core Ultra；; In terms of software, Lenovo and ASUS have both announced their plans for developing large models on new products to help users finish their work more easily with AI.
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But compared with these mature PC brands, glory has always been a "new recruit" in the PC market, not to mention the new glory that has just bid farewell to the three-year ordeal and finally returned to the market focus.So what should be the first AI PC of glory, or the first AI PC of mobile phone manufacturers?
The notebook market has always been the most difficult area to "serve".Thin and light, strong performance and long battery life.The notebook computer is what most users crave. But these three requirements can hardly be met at the same time, at least not until the existing physical conditions are broken.
This problem, glory intends to hand it over to AI to solve.
According to the communication meeting, the glory MagicBook Pro 16 enables AI-aided design, including the whole machine structure, body shape and even heat dissipation. However, it is hard to say how much AI has done in design. Thanks to this, the overall weight of MagicBook Pro 16 is reduced by 8%, the reliability is improved by 10%, and the maximum temperature of the shell is reduced by 4, with remarkable effect.
AI-enabled OS Turbo also appeared on MagicBook Pro 16. As a platform-level AI, it makes intelligent decisions in four dimensions: application scenarios, intelligent scheduling, system optimization and underlying resources. To give a simple example, when most laptops run PPT production, they often don’t adjust the CPU frequency according to the actual needs, which will lead to unnecessary performance waste and greatly reduced battery life. Platform-level AI is more flexible in decision-making. When you only fill in PPT text, the CPU will keep the low frequency.
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As for how much improvement users will feel in actual use, the figures given by Glory are: power consumption will drop by 30% and battery life will increase by 10%. At the same time, MagicBook Pro 16 is also the benchmark in the current Windows platform.
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Glory also used AI in an unexpected place-audio. MagicBook Pro 16 is the first PC product supporting spatial audio in Windows platform. Through intelligent decision-making at platform level AI, audio scenes are divided into games, music and conferences, and different scenes have different optimization directions. AI also needs to be responsible for accurately identifying different instrumental music and sound effects in audio, stripping and reorganizing them to generate space music with a sense of presence.
Compared with mainstream manufacturers, glory has made different AI PC in its familiar fields, especially the efforts made by platform-level AI, and its advantages stand out. But after all, AI PC is a very new concept. If consumers want to feel its difference, it seems that they must create some "super functions".
At the launch conference of MagicOS 8.0 and Magic6 series held at the beginning of this year, Glory brought the first self-developed big model "Magic Big Model", and its functions such as "Arbitrary Door", "Global Collection" and "YOYO Assistant" attracted numerous praises.
And some of these functions have landed on the first AI PC of glory.
First of all,MagicBook Pro 16, like most AI PC, supports generative AI functions such as document summarization and article writing.We have seen similar abilities in Copilot assistant of Windows 11, which is really a small coup to improve production efficiency. However, glory did not describe in detail whether these functions are similar to Microsoft’s practice, using cloud+end-side combination to generate, which may not be known until the official release.
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Secondly, Glory introduced the "global collection" which received rave reviews into MagicBook Pro 16, supported web pages, pictures, documents and other materials, and incorporated them into a workbench-like area, which can be retrieved at will when users need to use it. The practicability of this function has been verified on the mobile phone. Xiao Lei believes that "global collection" seems to be more practical for PC users than on the mobile phone.
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More importantly, MagicBook Pro 16 also has a newly upgraded "YOYO Assistant". According to reports, the "YOYO Assistant" on the PC side can realize global suggestions, smart search and other functions. Simply put, if you open a game, YOYO Assistant will give some settings optimized for the game scene, which will pop up in the lower right corner of the screen in the form of floating icons, and users can open it with one click.
Of course, in addition to these, there are many interesting small functions realized by Glory based on platform-level AI, such as meeting minutes and local image search. As a mobile phone brand, glory’s idea of building hardware products will still be from a practical point of view, which is highlighted from the earlier notebook computer products of glory. For example, thin and light users pay more attention to battery life, and glory will make more bottom-level optimization for this.
When it comes to a mobile phone manufacturer to build PC products, it has to mention the "killing skill" of glory on AI PC-smart interconnection.
At MWC24, glory emphasized the new deployment of AI full-scene strategy. whether it is Magic6 series or the first AI PC MagicBook Pro 16, it is the most important part of this strategy.
MagicBook Pro 16 continues the glorious Magic Ring feature of "trust ring", emphasizing the cross-device connection between mobile phone, tablet and PC. In the live demonstration, glory staff showed a cross-platform sharing of PPT between PC and tablet, such as Excel data table, which you can edit on PC and consult on tablet.
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From a technical point of view, MagicBook Pro 16 has been upgraded to a new generation of trust ring with full-stack reconfiguration. It is found that the waiting time of equipment is shortened to infinitely close to zero, the networking speed is increased by 500%, and the maximum support for eight groups of services is concurrent, which improves the bandwidth utilization by 20%.
In fact, this is multi-screen sharing, which is an emerging field that most PC manufacturers urgently need to win. For example, ASUS and Lenovo have all laid out dual-screen notebook devices in recent years, and their purpose is self-evident. And glory has a more important mobile ecology. You can even let your mobile phone act as a PC-side camera, reflecting higher-definition image quality in video conferencing.
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In addition to the "trust ring", Glory also plans to jointly deploy smart home and sports health into the AI full-scenario strategy. As for how to achieve it, there is no more information to be disclosed for the time being. However, it can be guessed that the learning ability is the most important thing for the big model in the AI era. For example, Sora, as a literary video tool, is still learning the physical laws of the real world. The same is true of the big model of glory, which uses the mobile phone to learn the user’s living habits and infer when the peak time of using the computer is, so as to better schedule the performance in advance and help users realize the real "one-on-one use".
As one of the earliest mobile phone brands to deploy AI PC, MagicBook Pro 16 has given sincere configuration and rich AI functions as soon as it appeared, which is worthy of recognition, especially the glory takes into account subtle aspects such as audio and performance scheduling, which is also exciting.
(Source: Glory)
However, the MagicBook Pro 16 is a bit too "luxurious". Whether it is the body design, the new Core Ultra processor or the concept of "it is a thin and light book and a game book", it is destined to be a quite high-end product, and its price may be beyond the reach of the public. The high-end positioning also makes it more difficult for the glory of the AI PC strategy to start.
However, according to the official, MagicBook Pro 16 is only the first AI PC this year, and there will be more products with different positioning on the road. Perhaps at that time, it is not too late for us to talk about the success of the glorious AI PC.
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