How Your Small Business Can Maximize Value with AI PCs
By Vivecka Budden, SMB Segment Manager
While 85 percent of small businesses express excitement about the potential of AI, only a fraction are putting it into practice.[1] As the Intel SMB manager focused on products designed for you, I want to help address this gap between enthusiasm and implementation. Our team is working hard with our partners to make it easy for you to use AI to help achieve your goals—especially around growing your business and gaining efficiencies.
The value is clear. A recent IDC survey of 2,100 global business leaders reports a 3.5x return on AI investments.[2] These are great results, but AI adoption comes with considerations. Though AI promises to streamline business operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive growth, getting started can feel overwhelming. It may even appear that there’s no clear path to get started.
We want to help simplify the process of adopting AI and a great place to start is with a tool you rely on every day—your PC. This year, Intel launched our AI PC for business with Intel® Core™ Ultra processors. In this blog, we cover five ways you can get started unlocking the value of AI with AI PCs.
#1: Super-charge your productivity to get more time back in your day
Productivity is a top business case for AI adoption, making it the best place to start for a quick win. You can turn your PC into a personal assistant that saves time by automating mundane tasks and providing smart suggestions. Local AI assistants on your AI PC can summarize meeting transcripts, draft emails, and create documents that you can use as a starting point. AI PCs can run these AI assistants with better performance and efficiency than previous generations of PCs, further enhancing productivity.3
#2: Discover and benefit from new experiences
With AI PCs, you can benefit from a new world of customized experiences. Whether you work as an accountant or a designer, you’ll find that AI is rapidly being infused into industry-specific applications and that AI PCs are specifically optimized to run these workloads.
Intel partner Tallyfor, for example, is pioneering new territory for accountants. With its AI software, Tallyfor automates preparing tax returns faster and with accuracy, empowering accountants to be “tax heroes.” The company can move the process from hours to minutes, letting accountants file tax returns faster, expand their business, and increase client satisfaction.
Ben Wen, Tallyfor’s CEO, explains: “We want our customers to be superheroes to their clients. Tallyfor can be your cape to help you fly with AI.”
#3: Unleash your inner creative
On the design front, generative AI (GenAI) leverages machine learning (ML) models to generate text, images, music, videos, and other forms of media. Photo and video editing apps are getting smarter with GenAI, enabling you to intuitively add more artistic effects to your projects. Whatever the task may be, whether it’s crafting campaign materials or content to enhance your website, you can create like a pro even without the extensive experience.
So, apps from Adobe (e.g., Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Lightroom Classic) and Wondershare (e.g., Filmora video editing software) help you use AI in a powerful way to create that professional polish with ease.
#4: Collaborate with colleagues and customers with less battery strain
AI takes collaboration to a whole new level, and that’s good for your business. With Zoom running on Intel® Core™ Ultra processors, AI capabilities make collaboration easier. This includes features like noise suppression so that when your dog barks during a Zoom meeting, it doesn’t disrupt the flow. Benefit from visual innovations such as background blur, eye contact, and auto framing, and tools that have the power to summarize meetings and action items based on your discussions. Each innovation allowing you to show up as your best self while never missing a beat in important customer meetings. In the background, meanwhile, AI PCs handle these AI-infused collaboration workloads at low power for less impact on battery and greater efficiency.
#5: Keep data between you and your device.
Security remains a top concern, and data needs to stay private. The AI PC is designed to keep data running on your PC locally. That means you can help protect your business by keeping sensitive data and intellectual property (IP) from going back and forth to the cloud and keep it stored locally on your device.
In addition, business AI PCs built on Intel Core Ultra processors come equipped with multi-layer, AI-powered security right out of the box, helping detect threats before they strike.
AI may seem daunting at first, and that’s understandable. But you’ll have a solid foundation when you start your journey with AI PCs. Built with Intel Core Ultra processors, your business AI PC will quickly become your strategic ally. Start by prioritizing productivity, exploring new experiences, and unleashing your inner creative impulses. From there you can enhance connections with colleagues and customers by taking collaboration to new levels while you enjoy increased data security. With all that AI offers, there’s no better time to jump in!
Learn more about business AI PCs by visiting intel.com/aipc.