Lenovo partners with Meta, Nvidia for AI outside China
On Wednesday, Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing made a high-profile announcement to deepen the company’s collaboration with chip maker Nvidia
Lenovo Group is partnering with Meta Platforms and Nvidia to boost its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings in markets outside China, as the world’s biggest personal computer (PC) maker seeks to maintain an edge amid fierce competition and geopolitical constraints.
Lenovo is launching a personal AI assistant named AI Now for PCs sold outside China, which is built upon Meta’s open source Llama 3.1 large language model, the company said at its annual Tech World conference in Seattle on Wednesday.
The AI Now chatbot is able to run on PCs locally without an internet connection, and can perform tasks such as managing documents, generating text and images, and configuring device settings with natural language prompts from users, according to Lenovo, which sponsored the South China Morning Post’s trip to the conference.
The local AI agent can “differentiate” Lenovo and “set it apart from others” in the market, Lenovo chairman and chief executive Yang Yuanqing said at the event on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, Yang also made a high-profile announcement to deepen the company’s collaboration with chip maker Nvidia, jointly launching a range of enterprise-facing AI solutions, including an AI server equipped with Nvidia’s new Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs) and Lenovo’s water-cooling technology.
