The Lenovo logo is visible in this illustrative photo. (Photo/Agencies)
SEATTLE – Lenovo kicked off its annual technology summit in Seattle, Washington, on Tuesday, showcasing the latest artificial intelligence (AI) innovations, devices and solutions.
Yuanqing Yang, Chairman and CEO of Lenovo, presented the company’s innovations and strategies aimed at “smarter AI for all” at the “Lenovo Tech World 24” summit.
He presented the technologies that make “hybrid AI” a reality for everyone, everywhere: at home, at work and on the go.
“AI is already improving people’s quality of life, improving business productivity, and protecting a more sustainable planet,” Yang said.
“This is a time of massive productivity gains on the horizon, a time of fundamental paradigm shifts in our industry, and a time to reimagine the future – for AI to work not only in the cloud, but also across at our fingertips and within our own organizations,” he emphasized.
Yang defined this future trend as “hybrid AI,” in which private AI – including personal AI and enterprise AI – coexists with public AI, complementing each other to deliver better outcomes for the different needs of customers.
Lenovo unveiled a range of new hardware and software solutions designed to help customers achieve results faster with AI, including AI for Good projects, hybrid AI to empower individuals and businesses, and ways to accelerate and deploy generative AI.
The company also discussed its continued investments and collaboration with partners to provide customers with the most advanced and comprehensive AI-enabled and AI-optimized AI devices, infrastructure, solutions and services .
New AI-based communications technology was showcased at the summit by Lenovo and the Scott-Morgan Foundation (SMF), a nonprofit organization pioneering innovative assistive technology.
The new scalable technology suite combines predictive AI, hyper-realistic avatars, personalized voices and eye tracking to help people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other severe disabilities.
Technological innovation could enable rapid, accurate and personal communication, revealing new possibilities for applying generative AI to accessibility challenges.
Using technology, people with ALS could tell stories and sing songs to others in their own voices, according to a video shown at the technology summit.
“This is about smarter AI for everyone: applying transformative technologies to the most pressing human challenges,” said Linda Yao, vice president of AI Solutions and Services at Lenovo.
Global technology leaders, including Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) CEO Lisa Su, highlighted their partnerships with Lenovo and explained how the tech giants leverage AI to create a more connected, more accessible world. and a more sustainable world.
“AI is truly the most important technology I have seen in my career. And the amazing thing is, it’s still early days, but what we’re seeing is that the pace of the innovation mission is moving faster than anything we have. “I’ve ever seen,” Su said at the summit.
“I see this as an opportunity for us to really bring AI to solve the world’s most important challenges,” she noted.
Su praised the AMD-Lenovo partnership in the field of end-to-end AI as well as the promotion of the data center ecosystem.
