Companies from all corners of the technology sector are putting AI front and center in their bids to convince enterprises they can guide them through the next big technology evolution. Count Lenovo as the latest, and it is doing so with Nvidia’s help.
At this week’s Lenovo Tech World event in Austin, Texas, Hong Kong-based Lenovo and Nvidia, and existing partner of the PC giant, announced they are expanding their partnership to support “a shared vision to bring the power of generative AI to every enterprise,” according to a statement.
Lenovo Chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang had Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang join him onstage at the Austin event to describe the partners’ plans, which include the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 server, which already is optimized for production AI running Nvidia AI Enterprise software, to also leverage Nvidia’s L40S GPUs, BlueField-3 DPUs and Spectrum-X Ethernet networking capability. In addition, the ThinkStation PX workstation, which also runs AI Enterprise, will bring expanded AI capability and data center performance to enterprise desktops by enabling up to 4x Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada GPUs in a system, the executives said.
Lenovo and Nvidia to deploy the latter’s MGX modular reference design to create new solutions for enterprises’ generative AI workloads, plans that also will involve Nvidia’s Omniverse metaverse creation platform. New Lenovo solutions will also support the recently announced VMware Private AI Foundation with Nvidia, enabling the hundreds of thousands of VMware customers to streamline adoption of generative AI.
On top of these plans, Nvidia also is supporting Lenovo’s AI professional services practice as it looks to help enterprises develop AI-based capabilities from conception to deployment. Lenovo said.
“Together, Lenovo and Nvidia are driving a new era of Hybrid AI for businesses, designing the next generation of technology that delivers an AI-powered future now and unlocks the power of their data anywhere it is created,” said Kirk Skaugen, President of Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group, in a statement issued at the time of the executives’ presentation. “Lenovo’s expanded engineering and time to market partnership with Nvidia simplifies the path to generative AI for all and helps customers anywhere rapidly use cutting-edge AI to transform their business.”
Bob Pette, Vice President of Enterprise Platforms at Nvidia, added, “With generative AI driving the greatest technology transformation of our time, enterprises are seeking solutions that give them the flexibility to develop and deploy workloads across their workstations, data centers and clouds. Nvidia and Lenovo are providing a comprehensive portfolio of hybrid AI systems that businesses can rely on to power generative AI from virtually anywhere.”
The expanded partnership between the companies was just one aspect of Lenovo's "AI for All" strategy the company discussed this week, and which also involves AMD, Microsoft, and others.