As you can already tell, Computex 2024 is the hotbed of artificial intelligence. Rather than keeping it squarely in the clutches of businesses, Gigabyte has a new series designed to put the tool in anyone’s hands. From picking the right hardware to learning how to adapt your own open-source large language model and training it up, AI TOP is pitched as the all-round solution.
Giving a sneak peek, Gigabyte’s AI TOP-branded components are optimised for power efficiency and durability to last with continuous use. TRX50 AI TOP leads the charge for motherboards, equipping AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPUs with a handful of Gen 5 NVMe slots, eight-channel DDR5 memory, and four PCIe 5.0 x16 slots. This gives you a quad-GPU setup that you can fill with Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super AI TOP. This special edition swaps out the traditional multi-fan cooler for a blower, optimised for compact environments where airflow is a little more difficult.
Apparently, Gigabyte has plenty more in store that hasn’t yet seen the light of day. Looking at its AI PC line-up, we’ll likely see more from the Intel camp and a few more blower-style graphics cards from Nvidia’s 40 series range.
Once you have your hardware in place, Gigabyte introduces you to the AI TOP Tutor, a custom helper built to guide you through your setup, advise you on your chosen solutions, and provide technical support. It looks a lot like Nvidia’s digital human, but we’re not certain which route the brand has taken for its personal assistant.
After that, AI TOP Utility is your next step. This is where you’ll train local AI models using preset strategies, prepare your workflows using the scheduler, and monitor everything in real-time from hardware loads to your LLM’s progress using a single dashboard. It’s engineered with a friendly user interface that’s easy enough for beginners with no history of artificial intelligence programming, using just a few clicks rather than inputting any code. From zero to seasoned AI connoisseur in next to no time.
On stage in Taipei, Gigabyte joked that it might switch from a hardware to a software company. Tongue in cheek aside, though, I think it’s already straddling the line between both. AI TOP, combined with newly announced AI-optimised PC components bring the two worlds together because AI can’t exist without hardware, and hardware will likely soon not be able to exist without AI.