Embrace the New AI-Enhanced Life: 2024 AI Laptop Buying Guide

The AI artificial intelligence wave is sweeping in, bringing unprecedented changes and innovations to the world. Laptops with AI capabilities make daily tasks more effortless, providing convenient and swift solutions for both work and personal life. In the future, built-in AI will become the new standard for laptop selection. For instance, creators can accelerate video editing using AI, employing generative AI to speed up the creative process. In the marketing field, AI can analyze followers' sharing and interaction patterns to identify fake accounts, analyze existing promotional targets and consumers, and help clients achieve their goals in the most effective way possible. In gaming, AI can create dynamic game environments and even simulate NPC characters' expressions, voices, movements, and more, enhancing the challenge and realism of the gaming experience. In daily life, AI can even serve as a dating coach. It can have conversations with potential partners through voice system, AI can analyze preferences and values and provide suggestions before going on a date.

↑ AI can analyze posting frequency, topic tags, keywords, reposts, and likes to identify maliciously spamming influencer accounts.

AI comes in various forms, with "Training" and "Inference" being the most commonly used models in the current market. Through "Training," neural networks learn from vast databases, discern specific features, and can subsequently provide optimal solutions when encountering similar cases through "Inference." The development of training and inference models by technology giants like Intel, NVIDIA, and Microsoft has further propelled the growth of the AI industry. This progress in hardware and software has also given rise to the emergence of AI laptops. Choosing a suitable AI laptop for gamers, creators, or business professionals will be a crucial factor in embracing the new AI-enhanced life.

MSI is a pioneer in AI laptops, integrating AI into laptops since 2018. Through Gaming Mode, the system automatically detects available resources and activates extreme performance mode, gaming audio, gaming display, and lighting effects when launching games. Up to this point, MSI has been at the forefront of the industry with the development of up to 8 AI software and technologies, such as automatic system resource allocation, AI Artist, MSI AI Engine, voice control, and other AI solutions.

As the research and development technologies mature, MSI AI laptops are now capable of combining portability, handling large database, and performing complex computational tasks. They can tackle tasks like deep learning, image and speech recognition, data analysis and predictions. This significantly aids various industries by providing smarter and more efficient solutions. Choosing a suitable AI laptop is an important step in enhancing gaming experience, creativity, and work efficiency. The new generation of MSI laptops is designed for the AI era, incorporating AI technology in both hardware and software aspects. With the support of AI-enabled CPU, GPU, NPU, and MSI's exclusive AI software, these laptops offer powerful computing capabilities and optimized usage scenarios for daily tasks and AI-related product development.

↑ MSI is a pioneer in the industry, having developed up to 7 AI software and technologies.

The brand new MSI AI Engine can automatically detect different user scenarios (Gaming, Work, Meeting, Entertainment) and activate suitable performance, sound effect, display mode, and keyboard backlight. End users don’t need to adjust manually for the optimal user scenarios. When players launch a game, the system settings are automatically optimized. This includes switching to Extreme Performance Mode to unleash maximum performance, changing the keyboard backlight to RGB's colorful effect, setting the screen and audio to game mode. This provides a faster and more immersive gaming experience.

↑ MSI’s Top AI Gaming Laptops are Gamer’s ultimate weapon.

The new generation of Business and Productivity laptops, Summit and Prestige will all be equipped with the MSI AI exclusive features. These features not only enhance work efficiency but also significantly improve meeting quality. When the meeting software is launched, the MSI AI Engine will automatically detect and activate the Intelligent Meeting mode. It can switch to Silent Mode to reduce fan noise and enable AI Noise Cancellation Pro to minimize noise interference. Additionally, notifications from Windows OS will also be temporarily disabled (such as communication apps and news), allowing users to focus on the meeting without disturbances.

The all-new MSI AI Noise Cancellation Pro utilizes AI to determine the sound's direction, selectively eliminating annoying noise and improving the clarity of human voices, much like the crisp quality of a recording studio. It presents voices more clearly in video conferences.

↑ The brand new AI Noise Cancellation Pro can eliminate annoying noise directionally.

Moreover, the Tobii Aware software utilizes AI facial recognition to detect suspicious individuals behind the laptop. It automatically locks the screen when the person leaves to avoid information leakage. This feature allows business professionals to use their laptops with peace of mind in different working environments.

↑ With Tobii Aware, the laptop automatically locks the screen when the person leaves, and others will not be able to unlock it.

↑ MSI assists business professionals in providing the best working scenarios.

MSI's exclusive Generative AI software — MSI AI Artist, simply describe the context, dimensions, and style of the desired image, and it will quickly generate the image within seconds, even creating Photoshop PSD file with layers, saving time on graphics production and copyright costs. Unlike other AI drawing software that operates in the cloud, AI Artist performs computations locally on the system, allowing it to work even without an internet connection and reducing the risk of information leakage. Through continuous learning, AI Artist will become more aligned with the user's needs and enhances the precision of the generated images.

↑ Simply input keywords, and AI Artist can generate images within seconds.

Smart Image Finder can utilize AI data to deduce intelligent tags, helping users categorize and browse all precious memories. For example, by simply inputting a keyword like "Cat," users can easily find photos of their beloved cats from a vast sea of pictures. On the other hand, it also saves creators’ time in searching for image files, thus accelerating overall creative efficiency.

↑ MSI is the best partner for unleashing creativity.

↑ Each Tech Giant comes up with AI solutions.

As AI application happens everywhere, Intel Core Ultra processor aims to bring a new structure for AI. It features integrated image acceleration VPU into the processor, unleashing the AI effect in less consumption. In addition, this structure supports widely ISV software applications, for example, it can lower consumption and improve performance, provide automatic scene recognition, automatically generate frame…etc.

NVIDIA RTX 40 graphics card’s built-in CUDA core and Tensor core can support machine learning and AI-related content operation, for example, voice, image recognition, natural language processing (NLP), generative AI, or system recommendation. Furthermore, NVIDIA RTX 40 graphics cards support the latest DLSS 3 to collaborate with Frame Generation Technology, which can generate additional frames in every gaming scene through AI learning, even play with ultra high resolution and ray-tracing on, NVIDIA RTX 40 graphics card can still have multiple growths in frame rate, providing gamers a more delicate and smooth gaming scenes.

↑ After switching on DLSS 3 and Frame Generation, gamers can still enjoy an extremely smooth gaming experience under 4k resolution and ultra quality preset.

For game creators, NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine（ACE）could apply AI to let NPC have an instant conversation with corresponding facial expressions and gestures, and this can even be communicated by the player's mother tongue to make the game more vivid. For video creating, NVIDIA graphics cards support NVIDIA Canvas 360, and it can rapidly generate the scenery to support Unreal Engine, simplifying the complicated creating process in order to maximize the efficiency.

↑ Through NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine, it can make NPC have an instant conversation that is off-script.

↑ Simplify the complicated creating process in order to maximize the efficiency in NVIDIA Canvas 360.

Microsoft will present Windows Copilot in the near future, combining AI chat assistant “Copilot” with working and daily life. You can complete multiple orders by simple conversation, such as “play music that fits to work”, and Spotify will automatically switch on and play the suitable playlist. Microsoft 365 Copilot can combine Calendar, Outlook, Teams, Word, Meeting that businessmen commonly used with contact information, in order to enhance a better collaboration. Giving out an order like “tell the team we’ve updated the products strategies” can generate a progress updated data includes the meeting, emails and chat history then send it to the team members. In the future, this will integrate seamlessly with people’s everyday life. Improve working fluency and stay focus on the ongoing mission.

↑ Microsoft has cooperated with 50+ companies to import the application, and will become a large ecosystem once released online.

↑ Start an easy conversation with AI chat assistant “Copilot”, then complete the command actions.

The quality of conference meeting which businessmen commonly used gets improvement due to NPU support. Windows Studio Effects will automatically blur the background during the conference meeting, and the function Eye Contact now has the effect that make people stare at each other instead of the camera, which makes the scenario closer to face-to-face dialogue. The feature of Automatic Framing is able to scale automatically and clip the images while users are moving around, and let the users always be in right in front of the camera. And the function Voice Focus can remove the noise from background, then make the voice more clear. The quality of the meeting won’t be affected by the surrounding noise anymore. In the future, laptops which equipped with Intel Core Ultra or AMD Phoenix processor are able to support Windows Studio Effects, and they can reduce the burden of the CPU by NPU accelerating and improve battery life.

*AMD Phoenix processors support Windows Studio Effects for those with XDNA.

↑ During the conference meeting, Windows Studio Effects can blur the background and reduce the surrounding interference

NPU is the Neural Processing Unit, devoting to activating the training and inference of AI. And it usually cooperates with CPU or GPU in order to provide a more effective computing capability. Manufacturers have named after different title for the latest processor with built-in NPU. Intel has Intel AI Boost in Core Ultra processor, and AMD has XDNA in AMD Phoenix processor.

↑ Manufacturers have input NPU in the latest processor to provide a more effective computing capability.

There are many benefits that could earn through NPU, to make the system resource scheduling more effective, activate service with AI in order to reduce the burden of CPU and increase the overall battery life at the same time. Take video editing and output from Adobe Premiere Pro for instance, CPU has to afford the most of the process of video-making, including decoding, coding, rendering, and other AI-related image operating. And GPU is mainly the character to accelerate the preview and output of the video. In the future, NPU is able to share the related image operation, including automatically adjusting color, recognizing voice, image, and subtitle. This releases the burden of CPU and make the entire resource arrangement more efficient and faster, then raise the system battery life.

In the past, the setup of AI structure needs to be concatenated with data by “human”. After considering all kinds of possible situation, we formulate a set of knowledge base or rule base. But it might influences the correction and immediacy of the data because of the low flexibility or insufficient professionalism. Currently, NPU earns a more effective solution through neural network. Neural Network stands an essential role in nowadays AI development, and it conforms a highly complex, interconnected network by imitating how brain neurons work. You only need to input the raw data to the software, then the computer will come up with a wise decision through deriving and analyzing by themselves.

↑ Neural Network imitates brain neurons and forms a highly complex, interconnected network.

As the development and the hardware technology of neural network gradually mature, AI technology evolves from “Machine Learning” to “Deep Learning”. How machine learning works is that algorithm analyzes and absorbs the data, and then apply it on the moment, like Netflix recommends their audience based on their preference. They even do the data analysis on the cover to increase the click rate. Although the model will become more and more accurate on the function, it still need human to intervene.

When the amount of data and the technic of GPU gradually mature, deep learning becomes the mainstream of AI. Instead of human intervention, it only needs to insert a great amount of data so that it can judge whether the result is accurate through “multi-layer” algorithm. Deep learning is kind of having the thinking ability as a human brain which creates an artificial neural network that can learn by itself. Take this for example, in order to let machine learning recognizes the image of “cat”, marking thousands of images of cat to study different kinds of features, like the amount of legs, eyes, ears, beard, the shape of the paw etc. Neural network will learn and analyze these images and process unknown images more precisely in the future.

↑ By providing data to deep learning, it can create a self-learning neural network through multi-layer algorithm.

Since OpenAI published ChatGPT at the end of 2022, a variety of Generative AI applications spring up, as the most discussed ChatGPT, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and Adobe Firefly are the best portrayal of Generative AI. Generative AI produces new content through Generator, while Discriminator identifies the accuracy of data. They together improve parameters to increase the ability of identification, and create a content that is close to reality and with creativity by training repeatedly and studying huge amount of data, like how articles, images, designs, music and voice were generated.

↑ Generative AI can create a lifelike and creative content.

The generative AI- Firefly from Adobe will be widely used on Photoshop and Illustrator. It can add in, extend, remove and generate the images automatically through an easy text enhancement. Only need endless imagination in the future to have unrivaled creative ability and high efficiency.

↑ Only need a simple instruction “turn the scene to the winter” in Photoshop to change the season in the picture.

↑ Only need to draw up a draft in Photoshop, then it can produce custom vector art, brushes, and textures.

However, there are some obstacles and risks for Generative AI. Generative AI software applications are widely used to enhance creativity, and the cloud database is also trained by “user behavior” at the same time; therefore, the chances that the outflow of personal data and company confidential will increase. Hackers are also seeking opportunities in this open environment and this will increase the ratio of information security incident. In addition, as the users of Generative AI software increase, the issues of full loading and network delay have come to the surface. And these will make the entire quality drop dramatically. So, if companies decide to use Generative AI to elevate the work efficiency, they will have to train their own database to execute at their local side to reach a safe and stable environment.

↑ Generative AI might bring up the issues of information security incident, full loading and network delay when computing online.

MSI laptops combine unique AI technology with the supportive hardware from different manufacturers to provide a perfect solution for life and work. MSI targets different customers like gamers, content creators and business professionals with different kinds of AI laptops. MSI provides strong computing ability and optimizing system setting, aiming in a faster, efficient and smarter way to accomplish the missions to enjoy the benefits from AI technology in different fields.

↑ MSI targets different customers like gamers, content creators and business professionals with different kinds of AI laptops.

↑ MSI AI laptops provide benefits from AI technology in different fields.