Moving to accelerate enterprise AI innovation, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang joined Lenovo CEO Yuanqing Yang on stage Tuesday during the keynote at Lenovo Tech World 2024.
Together, they introduced the Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage with NVIDIA, a full-stack platform for building and deploying AI capabilities across the enterprise that drive speed, innovation and productivity.
“We would like to achieve essentially superhuman productivity,” Huang told a crowd gathered in-person and online for Lenovo’s Seattle event. “And these AI agents are helping employees across industries to be more efficient and productive.”
They also unveiled a new high-performance AI server featuring Lenovo’s Neptune liquid-cooling technology and NVIDIA Blackwell, marking a leap forward in sustainability and energy efficiency for AI systems.
“This is going to be the largest of industrial revolutions we’ve ever seen,” Huang noted, highlighting the profound impact AI is having on industries worldwide. “And we’re seeing, in the last 12 months or so, just an extraordinary awakening in every single industry, every single company, every single country.”
Lenovo Unveils Hybrid AI Advantage With NVIDIA
The Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage with NVIDIA is built on Lenovo’s services and infrastructure capabilities with NVIDIA AI software and accelerated computing. It enables organizations to create agentic AI and physical AI that transform data into actionable business outcomes more efficiently.
“Our strategy is to combine modularization with customization so that we can respond quickly to customer needs while tailoring our solutions for them,” Yang said.
Introducing Lenovo AI Fast Start and Hybrid AI Solutions
As part of the Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage, Lenovo has introduced Lenovo AI Fast Start, a service designed to help organizations rapidly build generative AI solutions.
Leveraging the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, which includes NVIDIA NIM microservices and NVIDIA NeMo for building AI agents, Lenovo AI Fast Start enables customers to prove the business value of AI use cases across personal, enterprise, and public AI platforms within weeks.
By giving organizations access to AI assets, experts, and partners, the service helps tailor solutions to meet the needs of each business, speeding up deployment at scale.This platform also includes the Lenovo AI Service Library and uses NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, including NVIDIA NIM, NVIDIA NeMo and NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints for agentic AI, as well as support for NVIDIA Omniverse for physical AI.
The AI Service Library offers a collection of preconfigured AI solutions that can be customized for different needs.
When these offerings are combined with NIM Agent Blueprints, businesses can rapidly develop and deploy AI agents tailored to their specific needs, accelerating AI adoption across industries.
With the addition of NeMo for large language model optimization and Omniverse for digital twin simulations, enterprises can use cutting-edge AI technologies for both agentic and physical AI applications.
Energy Efficiency and AI Infrastructure
Yang and Huang emphasized the critical need for energy-efficient AI infrastructure.
“Speed is sustainability. Speed is performance. Speed is energy efficiency,” Huang said, stressing how performance improvements directly contribute to reducing energy consumption and increasing efficiency.
“Lenovo’s 6th Generation Neptune Liquid Cooling solution supports AI computing and high-performance computing while delivering better energy efficiency,” Yang said.
By reducing data center power consumption by up to 40%, Neptune allows businesses to efficiently run accelerated AI workloads while lowering operational costs and environmental impact.
In line with this, Lenovo’s TruScale infrastructure services offer a scalable cloud-based model that gives organizations access to AI computing power without the need for large upfront investments in physical infrastructure, ensuring businesses can scale deployments as needed.
Introducing Lenovo ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune With NVIDIA Blackwell
The CEOs revealed the ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune server, featuring NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell.
This 100% liquid-cooled system requires no fans or specialized data center air conditioning. It fits into a standard rack and runs on standard power.
“To an engineer, this is sexy,” Huang said, referring to the ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune server he and Yang had just unveiled.
The SC777 includes next-gen NVIDIA NVLink interconnect, supporting NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand or Spectrum-X Ethernet networking. It also supports NVIDIA AI Enterprise software with NIM microservices.
“Our partnership spans from infrastructure to software and to service level,” Yang said. “Together, we deploy enterprise AI agents to our customers.”