Given the barrage of new features that Lenovo has presented at its annual global Tech World event, it is clear to what extent Artificial Intelligence (AI) will now permeate each of its devices and solutions. Whether they are aimed at a private consumer, a small business or a large corporation, the firm led by Yuanqing Yang is clear about its vision of AI as the engine or the unavoidable element to continue advancing in all fields.
The event, held in Bellevue, Washington State, has brought together other industry leaders such as AMD’s first swords, Lisa Su; Intel, Pat Gelsinger; Goal, Mark Zuckerberg; Microsoft, Satya Nadella; NVIDIA, Jensen Huang; and Qualcomm, Cristiano Amon. All of them have witnessed this commitment to hybrid AI to achieve what they call “a fluid and secure integration of public and private clouds.”
Last summer, Lenovo was the first company to launch laptops with the X Elite processor and thus integrate the Microsoft Copilot, but now it wants to go one step further. For example, with the ThinkPad Also unveiled at this event was the Lenovo Learning Zone, a personal educational software platform powered by AI.
Own agent
The way the company hopes to integrate AI into all its devices is through Lenovo AI Now, available for download in this fourth quarter of the year. They have presented it as an AI agent that is based on a large local language model or LLM, so it avoids relying on cloud processing. They argue that “this offers greater data privacy, since all interactions remain stored locally on the device.” They add, users will be able to use Lenovo AI Now to automate and simplify a wide range of tasks, from document management and online meeting transcriptions to device control and content generation. From the descriptions made, it is a progression of the Microsoft Copilot, but this time its own. It will also allow the user to quickly search through local documents and images stored on the device, or generate text summaries depending on what they need at any given time.
This Lenovo AI Now system will also be powered by third-party AI applications to expand the platform’s capabilities. The objective is to support office work, creative work and even thinking about games. “This tool empowers professionals, students and creators with AI functions that can summarize documents, create answers, generate visual content and much more. All this facilitates a fluid and agile experience on the local device, in addition to taking advantage of the capabilities of the cloud “, they explain from Lenovo. To facilitate permanent access to the AI agent, they have also presented a mouse that includes a specific button to activate this tool from this peripheral.
Custom templates
“We are already seeing how AI is improving the quality of life for many people and raising the productivity of companies, and Lenovo is helping to make this paradigm shift faster, more accessible, more connected and more sustainable,” explained the Lenovo President and CEO Yuanqing Yang in his keynote speech. “Our strategy is based on combining modularization with customization, allowing us to quickly respond to customer needs while adapting our solutions,” he added. .
To advance this strategy, Lenovo has partnered with NVIDIA. In fact, in this same forum, it was Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of this company, who presented Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage, which integrates the new Lenovo AI Library. It is a repository of deployment-ready AI templates that allows companies to implement AI solutions in just a few steps. The AI library spans multiple sectors and business functions, including marketing, IT operations, product development and customer service.
The company also joins the trend of personal assistants for the home with the presentation of a product test, in this case the Lenovo AI Buddy. In the latter case, it is a device with a circular screen that simulates a user interface based on emotions. When it is launched on the market, you will be able to interact with users in a personalized way by managing agendas, reminders and daily tasks.
In this type of global events organized by technology companies, there is also time to present product tests or prototypes that may or may not finally reach the market. Among them, we highlight the Super Multi-view 3D conference solution. It is a 65-inch glasses-free, immersive 3D panel designed to maintain multi-person and multi-point of view interactions. By capturing real-time 3D video from multiple perspectives, participants will be able to experience meetings with a sense of depth and natural interactions, eliminating physical barriers and making remote collaboration more like in-person communication.
AI to help Alzheimer’s
Beyond business solutions and going to more specific use cases, Lenovo has also shown how AI is capable of helping in complex situations and users with very specific problems. We can talk, for example, about a project aimed at people with Alzheimer’s and dementia, a kind of companion avatar for patients with these pathologies, which “can provide significant support to those people facing a difficult diagnosis,” they explain. This combined technology aggregates the first-hand experience and advice of hundreds of real people living with dementia and Alzheimer’s into a responsive, photorealistic 3D avatar capable of natural, unscripted conversation. “With recent and increasing advancements in AI, we must aggressively and responsibly leverage this technology for communities that may be overlooked by innovative technology,” said Doug Fisher, Chief Security and AI Officer at Lenovo. An AI-based communication system for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has also been shown at Bellevue. In this case, it combines AI avatars, eye-tracking technology, and large predictive language models.
water cooling
Continuing with these solutions aimed at companies, Lenovo has also presented new high-performance stations with water cooling. Thus, it is beginning to deploy the sixth generation of Neptune liquid cooling systems among its entire ecosystem of partners, making it easier for all organizations to build and operate accelerated computing for generative AI applications, while reducing the consumption of their data centers. up to 40%. The new ThinkSystem family of solutions offers up to 100% heat removal, including servers that supercharge efficiency to put the NVIDIA Blackwell and NVIDIA GB200 platform for businesses of any size.
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