At Lenovo Tech World 2024, held last week in the United States, AIM reported from the ground as CEO Yuanqing Yang kicked off the keynote with the theme ‘Smarter AI for All’. The company not only showcased its strategic partnerships with all major infra players, such as AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, NVIDIA and others, but also unveiled AI products for all consumers.
Interestingly, Lenovo seems to have delivered products that go well beyond smarter AI for all.
Lenovo’s PC Game
Lenovo, the dominant PC player in the market, has held the number one position in terms of PC market share since 2013, and has been on a transformative journey. With AI in the picture, the company has ensured that it is well-integrated.
“Personal AI computing is being transformed into AI-enabled personalised computing,” said Yang, during the keynote. He even invited developers to join and enrich their open ecosystem experience.
Going forward with the vision of AI-powered innovations, the event witnessed the launch of a number of products for enhancing productivity, personalisation and security across work and home environments.
One of the products unveiled at the event was the ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 10 Aura Edition laptop for hybrid work. However, Lenovo’s ‘AI Now’ assistant was the biggest highlight of the company’s AI-enabled personalised computing vision.
Agents in PC
Lenovo’s latest personal AI agent called ‘AI Now’ that is integrated into PCs is built to make personalised devices for consumers. Yang believes the agent will eventually become one’s personal AI twin.
The AI Now feature helps streamline workflows by transferring materials like notes and images between devices without using the cloud. Activated with a simple command, AI Now enables cross-device sharing and supports simultaneous handling of text and graphics. The goal is to improve productivity and ease personalisation.
Interestingly, it is built on Meta’s Llama model. “This is a big part of why we open-source Llama. Companies like Lenovo can finetune the LLM to optimise it for specific use cases,” said Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg at the Lenovo event when talking about the strategic partnership with Lenovo.
Zuckerberg at Lenovo Tech World 2024, Bellevue. (Photo credit: AIM)
Zuckerberg views open-source as a cost-effective, customisable, and reliable option. He emphasised that with Llama’s growing prominence, it is starting to emerge as an industry standard, similar to Linux in the AI field. “By building with Llama, Lenovo has played a big part in getting us to that inflection point and bringing impressive experiences to its customers,” he said.
Lenovo’s AI agent ‘AI Now’ features. Source: Lenovo
Zuckerberg also spoke about Meta’s extended collaboration with Lenovo where the company has plans to build mixed reality headsets that will be powered by Meta Horizon OS, which is the OS that powers Meta Quest headsets.
AI Agents Everywhere
Lenovo’s AI agent adds to the lineup of agent announcements by big tech players including Oracle, Salesforce and Microsoft. A few days ago, Microsoft upped its game by releasing autonomous agents that will improve business processes across industries.
Starting November, the company will launch a public preview of the new feature within Copilot Studio, allowing users to create agents that automate tasks in areas like sales, finance, and supply chain management.
The agent craze has not stopped at that. Anthropic released a big upgrade to their Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku models which has brought the next step of agentic action. The company introduced a public beta for computer use, allowing Claude 3.5 Sonnet to interact with computers like a human by moving the cursor, clicking, and typing.
While still in beta, this feature is available for developers to test.
Lenovo’s AI for All
Besides PCs, the company has been leveraging AI for smartphones. Motorola, a subsidiary of Lenovo, also made important announcements regarding AI features on their phone, called ‘Moto AI’.
Moto AI is said to simplify smartphone interactions such as saving notes, learning user habits, and executing voice commands. It also gives AI-generated contextual information for captured content. The features are currently in beta.
Similarly, the ThinkPad that was launched at the event is tailored for hybrid work along with the Lenovo Learning Zone, an AI-based educational platform. The company also presented proof of concepts including Lenovo AI Buddy, a visual interactive module to assist people.
With these many announcements ensuring Lenovo touches upon all segments, the ‘smarter AI for all’ revolution surely has agents as a crucial part.
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