Lenovo and NVIDIA Join Forces to Accelerate AI Innovation with New Hybrid AI Platform

In a move to accelerate enterprise AI innovation, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang joined Lenovo CEO Yuanqing Yang on stage at Lenovo Tech World 2024 in Seattle. Together, they introduced the Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage with NVIDIA, a comprehensive platform designed to build and deploy AI capabilities across enterprises, enhancing speed, innovation, and productivity.

Huang emphasized the platform’s potential to transform productivity, describing the goal of achieving “superhuman productivity” by using AI agents to help employees across various industries work more efficiently. The two leaders also unveiled a high-performance AI server that incorporates Lenovo’s Neptune liquid-cooling technology and NVIDIA Blackwell, advancing sustainability and energy efficiency in AI systems.

Huang highlighted the sweeping impact AI is having globally, calling it “the largest industrial revolution we’ve ever seen.” He noted a rapid rise in AI adoption across industries, companies, and countries over the past year.

The Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage with NVIDIA is powered by Lenovo’s infrastructure and services, combined with NVIDIA AI software and accelerated computing. This platform enables businesses to develop agentic and physical AI solutions that can efficiently convert data into actionable business outcomes.

Yang discussed Lenovo’s strategy of blending modularity with customization to quickly respond to customer needs while tailoring AI solutions for specific requirements. He also introduced Lenovo AI Fast Start, a service designed to help organizations swiftly build generative AI solutions using the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, including NVIDIA NIM microservices and NVIDIA NeMo for AI agent development. This service enables businesses to validate AI use cases across personal, enterprise, and public platforms within a matter of weeks.

Lenovo AI Fast Start, along with the AI Service Library, provides preconfigured AI solutions that can be customized for various industries. These tools, combined with NIM Agent Blueprints, allow companies to rapidly develop and deploy AI agents, accelerating AI adoption.

The partnership between Lenovo and NVIDIA also emphasizes the importance of energy-efficient AI infrastructure. Huang stressed that improvements in performance directly enhance sustainability, reducing energy consumption and boosting efficiency. Yang echoed this, highlighting Lenovo’s 6th Generation Neptune Liquid Cooling solution, which can cut data center power consumption by up to 40%, allowing businesses to run AI workloads efficiently while reducing costs and environmental impact.

The CEOs also showcased the ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune server, featuring NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell. This 100% liquid-cooled system operates without fans or specialized air conditioning, fitting into a standard data center rack with regular power requirements. Huang remarked on the innovation, calling the server design “sexy” from an engineer’s perspective.

The SC777 supports next-gen NVIDIA NVLink interconnect, offering compatibility with NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand or Spectrum-X Ethernet networking. It also runs NVIDIA AI Enterprise software with NIM microservices, enabling a seamless experience from infrastructure to service delivery. Yang concluded by highlighting the depth of the Lenovo-NVIDIA partnership, which spans infrastructure, software, and service levels, helping enterprises deploy AI agents and scale their AI operations.

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