Lenovo™ Showcases Smarter AI for All Across at Tech World 2024

Lenovo has unveiled its most ambitious AI innovations to date at its Tech World 2024 event, reinforcing its goal to create a future of “Smarter AI for All.” Among the highlights are Lenovo AI Now, a local AI agent transforming PCs into personalised assistants; the new ThinkPad™ X1 2-in-1 Gen 10 Aura Edition Artificial Intelligence (AI) laptop, integrating AI-driven features for hybrid work; and Lenovo Learning Zone, an AI-powered personal educational software platform.

In addition, Lenovo showcased more of its Smarter AI for All innovations through exciting new proof of concepts such as Lenovo AI Buddy, a visual interactive module, and advanced technology demos, including Workstation AI solutions and ThinkShield™ AI PC security, demonstrating its ambition to lead in cutting-edge AI solutions. These announcements showcase how Lenovo’s AI portfolio personalizes experiences, enhances productivity, and provides data protection for work, learning, and home life.

Leading Smarter AI for All

“At Lenovo, our vision is to deliver smarter technology for all, with an unwavering commitment to shaping a future powered by AI. With one of the most comprehensive AI portfolios in the industry, we provide powerful, flexible, and responsible devices and solutions that empower individuals and drive transformation across industries,” said Luca Rossi, President, Intelligent Devices Group at Lenovo. “Our focus on personalised, productive, and protected experiences ensures that our AI-driven ecosystem helps unlock creativity, enhances collaboration, and seamlessly integrates into any digital environment.”

New Devices and Software Are Ready to Bring Everyday AI to Consumers and Businesses

These AI-powered devices and solutions from Lenovo are designed to advance the company’s Smarter AI for All v vision meet the diverse needs of users, offering tailored experiences for professionals, learners, and businesses alike. By integrating Smarter AI for All across its product portfolio, Lenovo aims to streamline workflows, improve collaboration, and provide more secure, personalised computing experiences.

Below are the key product announcements from Tech World 2024, each highlighting Lenovo’s Smarter AI for All vision and commitment to delivering smarter technology that is both intuitive and impactful.

Lenovo AI Now: Revolutionising the AI-Powered PC Experience

Lenovo AI Now is a groundbreaking AI agent designed to transform traditional PCs into truly personalised AI devices. It leverages a local Large Language Model (LLM) built on Meta’s Llama 3.1, enabling real-time interaction with a user’s personal knowledge base (PKB) without relying on cloud processing. This offers enhanced data privacy, as all interactions remain locally stored on the device.

Users can employ Lenovo AI Now to automate and simplify a wide range of tasks, from document management and online meeting transcriptions to device control and content generation. The platform’s intuitive AI assistant supports natural language interaction, allowing users to quickly search on device documents, local images, or generate text summaries based on specific queries.

Lenovo AI Now also integrates PC assistant functionalities, which allow users to configure their devices through natural language prompts. For example, users can adjust settings like display brightness or enable productivity tools such as eye care mode, all by simply asking Lenovo AI Now. With the knowledge assistant, users can drop files into their personal knowledge base, search within them, and even ask specific questions to retrieve key insights, making Lenovo AI Now a powerful tool for organising large amounts of data.

Additionally, Lenovo AI Now encourages a rich ecosystem of both Lenovo and third-party AI applications, ensuring Smarter AI for All and further extending the platform’s capabilities to support office work, creative tasks, and even gaming. It empowers professionals, students, and creatives alike with AI tools that can summarise documents, draft responses, generate visuals, and much more—all while enabling a smooth, fast experience on the local device, as well as leveraging the power of the cloud.

Lenovo AI Now Knowledge Library

With its local LLM and designed to leverage heterogeneous computing architecture, combining CPU (central processing unit), GPU (graphics processing unit), and NPU (neural processing unit) power, Lenovo AI Now delivers high-speed performance while minimizing battery drain. As a fully integrated solution, Lenovo AI Now also provides seamless support for after-sales services, device recommendations, and customer support through Lenovo’s virtual assistant, which is embedded within the platform for instant help and troubleshooting.

Lenovo AI Now, which is central to this Smarter AI for All vision, is designed with robust security measures to help protect user data and privacy. The personal knowledge base stores all personal data locally on the device, safeguarded by a strong security algorithm. Besides the local AI function, users also have access to cloud-based services to expand AI scenarios. In this instance, users have full control over when cloud services are accessed, and explicit consent is required every time cloud data is used.

Additionally, Microsoft Azure AI Content Safety is embedded in Lenovo AI Now, enabling real-time monitoring and filtering of harmful content. Lenovo AI Now has also received a marketing claim verification from UL Solutions for our AI algorithm, verified for data collection, storage, protection and exposure, and is the first AI application to achieve the UL Solutions AI Model Transparency Benchmark Diamond rating, resulting in a UL Verified Mark for AI Model Transparency, further demonstrating how Lenovo prioritises security and privacy.

With Lenovo AI Now, users gain a personalised, productive, and protected experience that pushes the boundaries of what AI-powered PCs can achieve, ensuring that their Lenovo devices are smarter, more intuitive, and more secure for everyday use. In short, it is a manifestation of Smarter AI for All.

ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 10 Aura Edition: Redefining Hybrid Work and Productivity

The ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 10 Aura Edition is built to offer unmatched versatility and power, making it a supreme solution—Smarter AI for All—for professionals who need flexibility, mobility, and performance. As a new 2-in-1 Copilot+ PC featuring a super bright OLED display option with variable refresh rate up to 120Hz, the device seamlessly transitions between laptop and tablet modes, enabling users to adapt to various work scenarios—whether taking notes during meetings, sketching with the Lenovo Yoga Pen, or working on complex reports.

Powered by Intel® Core™ Ultra 200V series processors with Intel® Arc™ graphics and an integrated up to 48 TOPS NPU, the ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 is designed to handle AI-driven tasks with ease, and generating real-time data insights to enhancing visual presentations. As a Copilot+ PC, the ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 10 Aura Edition offers unmatched performance and battery life, and the highest standard for Windows security available.

Users can accelerate their productivity and creativity with new AI experiences like Live Captions with translation, empowering them to communicate across languages with friends and family, or Cocreator in Paint inspiring people’s creativity to help bring their ideas to life. These Copilot+ PC features will become available from Microsoft starting late November.

Lenovo Aura Edition takes personalisation, user experience, and Smarter AI for All to the next level. It features:

• Smart Modes that provide intuitive access through a simple widget for personalisation of different tasks such as collaboration, wellness, and privacy, ensuring the device optimises its performance and power usage based on user needs.
• Smart Share allows for seamless image sharing with smartphones.
• Smart Care provides instant access to Lenovo’s support tools, ensuring users have real-time problem-solving assistance at their fingertips. These features are designed to make the ThinkPad more intuitive and responsive, delivering a tailored and more secure user experience for every type of professional.

With a battery life of over 18 hours, the ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 10 Aura Edition is engineered for all-day use, providing professionals the flexibility to work from anywhere without worrying about frequent recharging. The optional premium haptic touchpad and the iconic TrackPoint ensure precision control and comfortable navigation, while the stylus offers intuitive interaction for sketching, note-taking, or annotating documents.

Moreover, this Smarter AI for All device is designed with more sustainability in mind, featuring a Customer Replaceable Unit (CRU) battery and constructed from 75% recycled aluminum for the A and C covers and 55% recycled aluminum for the D cover. Its packaging is 100% plastic-free and made from bamboo and sugarcane.

Security and privacy are core components of the ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 10. It includes advanced ThinkShield security features such as a fingerprint reader integrated into the keyboard, IR camera with facial recognition, and a privacy shutter, to enable data protection and user privacy. Additionally, its robust MIL-SPEC 810H testing highlights durability, making the device more resilient in demanding environments.

End users can leverage the ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 10 Aura Edition to streamline their workflow, collaborate effortlessly, and stay protected, whether working from home, on the go, or in the office. From its hybrid functionality to its powerful AI-driven, Smarter AI for All enhancements, the device redefines what it means to work smarter, faster, and more securely in today’s dynamic business environment.

Lenovo Learning Zone: Empowering the Next Generation of Learners

Lenovo Learning Zone is an AI-powered educational platform designed to offer a comprehensive range of tools to facilitate learning in and out of the classroom. With its AI-driven learning tools, users gain access to live class assistance and real-time transcription, ensuring they never miss key details during lectures. The platform transforms class materials into AI Notes and AI-generated quizzes, capturing insights and reinforce learning through engaging, personalised assessments.

Further enhancing the Smarter AI for All learning experience, Lenovo Learning Zone supports seamless synchronisation between PCs and smartphones, allowing users to access their notes, quizzes, and learning materials across devices. With the Lenovo Smart Scanner, they can easily digitise and import paper documents, ensuring that all their learning resources are centralised in one place.

Beyond its educational features, Lenovo Learning Zone is committed to supporting user privacy and security. The platform’s AI model, using Lenovo AI Now, is locally stored and verified, meaning that personal data remains protected and under the user’s control. This is crucial for learners concerned about data privacy, ensuring that their educational journey is not only enhanced but also safeguarded.

The ThinkSmart Core Gen 2, announced on October 14, takes meeting efficiency to the next level as one of the first AI-optimised compute devices purpose built for video conferencing.  In addition to the already amazing intelligent audio and video features, it will pave the path forward by leveraging the latest AI-driven features using Microsoft Copilot and Zoom AI Companion. This transforms meeting rooms into intelligent collaboration hubs, enabling productive interactions with enhanced security whether meetings are in-person or virtual.

Never-Before-Seen New AI Device Proof of Concepts

Lenovo AI Mouse

The AI Mouse offers a personalised experience by integrating a dedicated AI button that connects users with Lenovo AI Now. With sleek ergonomics and an AI-powered digital assistant, this proof of concept mouse simplifies workflows, helping users navigate tasks more efficiently.

Lenovo “Home AI Brain”

The codenamed proof of concept “Home AI Brain” enhances the way families share memories by using AI to automatically generate videos that compile highlights from special events. This concept platform allows families to edit and share personalised content across devices such as tablets, PCs, and TVs, providing seamless connectivity and data security.

Lenovo AI Buddy

The codenamed “AI Buddy” proof of concept simulates an emotion-based User Interface to interact with users in a personalised way, adapting its responses based on the user’s requests and preferences. This digital assistant handles scheduling, reminders, and daily tasks efficiently, making it an essential productivity tool that integrates seamlessly into users’ routines.

Super Multi-view 3D Conference Solution

Lenovo’s Super Multi-view 3D Conference Solution offers an immersive 65-inch glasses-free 3D display designed for multi-person, multi-viewpoint interactions. By capturing real-time 3D video from multiple perspectives, participants can experience meetings with a natural sense of depth and interaction, eliminating physical barriers and making remote collaboration feel more like in-person communication.

Smart Connect and Lenovo Tablet

The Smart Connect platform seamlessly integrates the Motorola and Lenovo ecosystems devices, delivering a unified multi-device experience. Smart Connect leverages the AI power of connected devices within the ecosystem. For example, a Lenovo Tablet, when paired with a connected AI-powered PC, can access advanced AI tools available on that device. This allows non-AI devices to benefit from select AI-enabled features such as content creation in Lenovo Creator Zone, boosting productivity and enabling more secure, cross-device collaboration. For more details on Motorola’s AI innovations, visit the Lenovo Tech World event page.

Technology Demonstrations at Tech World

At Lenovo Tech World, the company showcased a series of groundbreaking AI-powered, Smarter AI for All demos across multiple domains, highlighting its continued innovation in personalisation, productivity, and security.

• Lenovo’s ThinkStation™ workstations, including the ThinkStation PX, are transforming AI development with support for up to 4x ultra-high-end NVIDIA® GPUs, enabling a scalable solution with enhanced security features for multiple AI workloads. This powerful Multi-User, Collaborative AI Developer Platform optimises performance, reduces infrastructure costs, and, when paired with ThinkPad P Series mobile AI workstations, creates an efficient environment for data preparation, model fine-tuning, and AI inference.
• The Lenovo Auto Twist AI PC proof of concept introduces a dynamic user experience by physically adapting to movements and using AI-powered camera tracking, ensuring users stay engaged during virtual interactions. The Lenovo Creator Zone demo leverages Stable Diffusion 3.0 to simplify content creation with natural language and sketch-based image generation, empowering creators’ imagination.
• Lenovo’s ThinkShield AI PC Cybersecurity demo highlights AI-enabled real-time threat detection, enhancing data protection and security.
• Lastly, Lenovo’s Work for Humankind initiative, demonstrated through AI avatars and natural language processing, offers mental health support for Gen Z, exemplifying Lenovo’s commitment to using AI as a force for good.

Lenovo’s vision of Smarter AI for All underscores its commitment to delivering personalized, productive, and protected AI solutions across diverse environments. Whether it’s through AI-enabled PCs like the ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 10 Aura Edition, innovative platforms like AI Now and Learning Zone, or new proof of concepts such as AI Buddy, Lenovo continues to push boundaries. By combining cutting-edge AI technology with robust data protection, Lenovo is looking to lead the future of AI, ensuring that users can work, learn, create, and collaborate more effectively in an AI-enhanced world.

For more details on Lenovo’s enterprise-scale Smarter AI for All solutions, check out the announcements from Lenovo ISG and SSG. Visit Lenovo’s Tech World event page, and Press Kit on StoryHub for full details and the keynote replay.