Good morning from Seattle, where we’re up and ready for day one of Lenovo Tech World 2024.
We’ll be heading over to the conference shortly, so stay tuned for all the updates today!
Lenovo Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Yuanqing Yang will be taking to the stage soon…
The lights go down, and Lenovo Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Yuanqing Yang takes to the stage.
“We use the power of AI to preserve the most cherished things,” he notes.
How do we satisfy the raising demand for AI?
Yang asks - through partnerships.
The company is launching its first AI agent today - Lenovo AI Now.
Yang returns to the stage, and moves towards talking about personalized computing, and devices.
He likens it to the initial age of the Internet, with the same impact for users everywhere.
Yang returns for another mini love-in - it’s clear these two are great buddies.
Now we move on to enterprise AI, with Yang focusing on security and customization alongside productivity and efficiency.
This all means customers can pursue AI development goals with greater power.
One of its biggest customers is AMD - and chairman and CEO Dr. Lisa Su takes to the stage.
“This is an incredibe time we’re living in today for AI,” she notes.
“AI is truly the most important technology I’ve seen in my career.”
“At the end of the day, everyone wants more AI compute”, she notes.
“It’s all about getting the best compute to as many users as possible.”
Su also notes this is all about an open ecosystem.
“We want an ecosystem that allows everyone to innovate above the base hardware,” she says.
AMD is now supporting over a million models, she notes.
Again, Lenovo showing the power of its partnerships - and Zuck still looks pretty rad too.
We welcome Dr Tolga Kurtoglu, Lenovo CTO to the stage.
He’s here to talk about unleashing human potential through AI.
This is moving to the era of “augmented intelligence”.
The future of AI is not just about digital tools, but also digital companions, he says.
“Smarter AI enhances and unleashes human potential.”
AI products should do no harm, or infringe on rights, he notes.
“We’re unlocking a smarter future with AI solutions that serve everyone, everywhere.”
“We are not just imagining the future - we are inventing it.”
Next on stage is another Microsoft representative - this time Asha Sharma, CVP, Product, AI platform.
We’re back for the afternoon keynote.
It has over 80 products optimized for AI, from laptops to routers to full-on racks.
Next up, we’re looking at sustainability.
Rozanovich hints at the “massive amounts of power” needed to carry out AI tasks.
Turning to ROI, Rozanovich mentions scale as a key consideration for customers.
Lenovo says it’s committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
Next up is Dr Yong Rui, SVP of emerging technolgoy group, to talk about automotive AI.
It could also be the next big AI opportunity, with the technology allowing for a massive jump forward.
Ali Kani from Nvidia comes on stage to highlight more on how the platform works.
Speed, ease and expertise are the key when it comes to delivering solutions and services, he says.
Wong returns to finish talking about expertise - something Lenovo has in spades.
The two companies have been working hard on hybrid AI, Huang notes.
“There’s going to be digital robots - we’ll call them agents!
“, he says.
“We’re going to have informational robots - called agents - but also robots.”
“These two artificial intellgences…will be the underpinning of the world’s industries.”
“We would like to achieve, essentially, superhuman productivity.”
“We are working together to make hybrid AI more sophisticated,” he notes.
“These new computers are effectively factories,” Huang says of the new Blackwell-based systems.
“We have the ability, because we build the entire AI factory from end-to-end.”
There’s also a new AI computing DCU for autonomous driving - the Nvidia Drive AGX Thor with Blackwell.
Final thoughts from Huang?
“Go Lenovo!”
he shouts, to massive cheers from the audience.
It’s only FIFA President Gianni Infantino - with the actual World Cup!
“FIFA has big ambitions in the tech space,” Infantino says.
And with that, it’s a wrap on the second keynote!
Next is a question about agentic AI, and how data protection and privacy are crucial considerations.
Another question about Lenovo’s strong partnerships - “no company can do everything!”
Finally - a question about which new tech shown off today will have the biggest effect on daily lives?
laughs Yang, before highlighting enhancements to AI PCs and 3D screens as particular advances.
