Lenovo Unveils AI Solutions to Save Energy, Speed ​​Deployment and Accelerate Use Cases

• Lenovo unveils comprehensive services, business-enabled applications and six hybrid AI solutions to empower even more industries.^Number Next-generation Lenovo Neptune liquid cooling innovations enable practical use of AI

• The growing ecosystem includes new NVIDIA-powered solutions as part of Lenovo's ongoing $1 billion investment to provide one-stop enablement to accelerate AI adoption at scale.

• Lenovo's smart AI helps businesses accelerate use cases, achieve faster outcomes and improve efficiencies by leveraging AI to unlock the value of data.

Lenovo unveiled a new comprehensive enterprise AI solution designed to enable any business to develop and deploy AI, with turnkey services, business-ready vertical solutions and energy-efficient innovations to accelerate the practical application of AI. AI Applications The expansion includes new comprehensive services delivered by NVIDIA through the Lenovo AI Center of Excellence, new validated AI Innovator solutions from pocket to cloud, and six^Number The second generation of Lenovo Neptune liquid cooling designed to support mainstream deployment of AI-enabled computing without sacrificing energy efficiency.

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A survey by IDC and NVIDIA commissioned by Lenovo reveals that generative AI is the top technology investment priority for 2024 among IT and business decision makers (ITBDMs) worldwide.¹This new expansion is part of Lenovo's previously announced $1 billion, three-year investment to accelerate the adoption of generative AI, paving the way for “Smart AI for All” with solutions that simplify deployments, deliver faster outcomes and maximize performance and efficiency at every stage of AI adoption.

“Bringing generative AI to every business around the world requires an end-to-end infrastructure purpose-built to simplify the path to AI innovation and enable real-world applications,” said Scott Thies, vice president and general manager of High Performance Computing and AI at Lenovo. “With these new services, Lenovo is enabling validated AI-enabled use cases for customers across every industry, around the world.”

Further demonstrating its commitment to being a responsible corporate citizen with its vision to deliver smarter technology to all, Lenovo's latest 18th Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report outlines Lenovo's active governance of accessible and inclusive AI as it strives to be a leading provider and enabler of smarter AI.

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Lenovo's third annual CIO report reveals that most organizations struggle with how to quickly, effectively and securely deploy AI-powered solutions. We offer a comprehensive portfolio of AI services aligned to Gartner's five key AI adoption phases. As mentioned in the Gartner report:²The Lenovo AI Service Center of Excellence (AI COE) can help you find the right solutions to bring AI to your organization quickly, cost-effectively, and at scale, taking AI from concept to reality.

• To build real-world proofs of concept, Lenovo AI Fast Start delivers live solutions that demonstrate the adoption of generative AI and showcase business, operational and technology outcomes. Through Lenovo AI Fast Start for NVIDIA AI Enterprise, enterprises can accelerate and rapidly scale AI with full-stack NVIDIA-based technologies, while the new Lenovo AI Fast Start for NVIDIA NIM Inference Microservices provides developers with an easy-to-use, optimized, containerized inference engine for popular NVIDIA AI Foundation models available from NVIDIA and its partner ecosystem. The new AI Fast Start for AI Innovators brings together over 165 turnkey Lenovo AI Innovators program solutions to help configure, demonstrate and build customized AI use cases to quickly and effectively demonstrate and drive AI value and ROI.
• AI advisory services will be launched soon where Lenovo experts will define desired business outcomes based on an organization's AI readiness and create a customized roadmap for AI adoption in organizations of any size, from pocket to cloud. AI adoption is people-centric and the services will include training and tools to help customers engage and support their employees through their AI adoption.
• To get started, Lenovo AI Discovery Help customers visualize and plan their AI adoption strategy and resources to quickly derive real business value. Lenovo experts assess an organization's AI readiness across security, people, technology, and process (proven methodology) and provide recommendations to position customers for AI success.

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Across its portfolio of 165+ AI Innovator Solutions, Lenovo delivers AI-driven outcomes focused on productivity, customer, quality and innovation with customized solutions that leverage data across retail, hospitality, manufacturing, healthcare, finance and smart city applications. Customers can quickly find purpose-built, validated and ready-to-use AI solutions focused on their industry and use case.

With NVIDIA's support, Lenovo can provide customers with the following security-enhanced, scalable, end-to-end solutions to establish or extend AI to solve challenges from pocket to cloud, all of which can be fast-tracked and expanded immediately with the new Lenovo AI Fast Start service:

• Smart Virtual Assistant: Lenovo is teaming up with NVIDIA and DeepBrain to provide customer service by creating virtual employees to serve customers through AI-powered kiosks.
• Smart Travel: Lenovo AI makes air travel safer with automated bird collision avoidance solutions. The Edge Company uses Lenovo AI ThinkSystem SR650 servers with NVIDIA GPUs to create high-performance appliances that help airports protect their airspace.
• Smart Manufacturing: Lenovo is prioritizing zero incidents by partnering with NVIDIA and Graymatics to deliver video-based analytics and LabVista™, a multi-industry solution that provides deep insights into workplace safety, efficiency, and compliance.
• Smart Retail: Lenovo AI leverages the Everseen Visual AI platform to shape the future of self-checkout, improving customer experience while reducing retailer loss.

Lenovo is working with leading ISVs to develop an AI ecosystem regionally while ensuring responsible solutions are available to drive innovation everywhere. Al Hathboor Bikal.ai and Lenovo unveiled DialogXR, the UAE region's first locally deployable AI-powered solution, which streamlines business operations by using Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate tasks, enhance customer service and provide employees with on-demand insights and training. The trained chatbot uses an organization's own data and leverages the state-of-the-art Lenovo Neptune liquid-cooled HPC cluster within Sharjah Research, Technology and Innovation Park (SRTIP) to accelerate AI while reducing energy consumption.

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Lenovo continues to invest in accelerating AI development and enhancing hybrid capabilities through its expanded AI PC and workstation portfolio and services. For everyday business users, NPU-enabled Lenovo ThinkPad devices and Dynamo AI for AI innovators enable enterprises to deploy generative AI applications with built-in multi-language assessment, remediation and guardrails. The sleek and ultra-thin Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 is Lenovo's first CoPilot+ PC with 40+ TOPs capabilities, delivering built-in AI performance, enterprise-ready and superior efficiency, with the most efficient processors on the market, so remote workers can stay productive from anywhere, no plug required.

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For professional creatives, designers, engineers and others who need more advanced AI and graphics capabilities, Lenovo offers the largest ever portfolio of NVIDIA-certified desktop and laptop workstations for the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. Lenovo workstations with NVIDIA AI Workbench provide data science and AI professionals with a local, secure sandbox environment and the highest performance computing capabilities they need to develop their AI projects. Lenovo's ThinkStation PX, optimized for desktops and racks, is the world's most powerful workstation for AI training and development.³Capable of supporting up to four NVIDIA RTX™ 6000 Ada generation GPUs, the recently announced ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 serves as Lenovo's most powerful AI PC, featuring a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU) and advanced NVIDIA RTX Ada generation laptop GPUs to deliver premium AI experiences.

Smarter AI will take liquid cooling mainstream: 6^Number Gen Lenovo Neptune Liquid Cooling

Lenovo Neptune™ has been a world leader in data center cooling technology for over a decade, developing a unique method of using liquid to remove heat, enabling customers to reduce power consumption by up to 40% compared to traditional air-cooled systems. Direct water cooling solutions recycle hot water loops to cool data center systems, keeping all server components cool and reducing the need for power hungry system fans in data center operations.

With over 40 industry-first patents, Lenovo is pushing the boundaries of six liquid cooling technologies.^Number Next generation Lenovo Neptune liquid cooling system: With new design innovations, the industry-leading Lenovo Neptune liquid cooling system is now mainstream available across the ThinkSystem V3 and V4 portfolio.

• Expanded availability of Neptune™ across the mainstream portfolio: The mainstream ThinkSystem V3 and V4 products include a direct open-loop liquid cooling option for the CPU..
• New industry exclusive cold plate design: The patented cold plate design, optimized for the CPU and accelerator, maximizes heat removal for the accelerators, which currently consume approximately 700W, with future designs capable of consuming over 1000W.
• New on-memory cooling technologies for ThinkSystem platforms: Lenovo's patented memory cooling for high-density HPC systems is integrated into ThinkSystem platforms with direct DRAM liquid cooling, allowing customers to choose from CPU and memory options to efficiently reduce heat and maximize performance where it's needed most.
• 6^Number Generation Neptune™ Hot Water Cooling: New hot water cooling designs enable data centers to operate without the need for specialized air conditioning. Neptune™ hot water cooling turns waste heat into value by enabling hot water to be reused within the facility.

moreover, Colocation Partnerships is helping customers implement high-performance private AI, even when they don't have the data center footprint or infrastructure for liquid cooling. Digital Realty, in partnership with Lenovo, recently enhanced its high-density colocation offering with Lenovo Neptune cooling technology in more than half of its data centers worldwide, representing a major leap forward in addressing the challenges of high-density workloads posed by AI.

“The massive increase in data generated in recent years has created an unprecedented demand for fast computing power, and AI demands fast computing,” said Chris Sharp, Chief Technology Officer at Digital Realty. “Lenovo Neptune™ liquid cooling is designed to make enterprise computing as powerful and efficient as possible. Our partnership enables customers to achieve their sustainability goals and exponentially grow generative AI capabilities through infrastructure that doesn't sacrifice efficiency for higher performance.”

A groundbreaking milestone in efficiently supercharging large-scale AI workloads, the Lenovo ThinkSystem AI portfolio features time-to-market support for powerful 8-way NVIDIA GPU systems, including the latest NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB200 superchip. For customers focused on the environmental impact of AI, the ultra-efficient 5U Lenovo ThinkSystem SR780a V3 uses Lenovo Neptune liquid cooling to deliver ultra-low Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) in the data center.

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