Lenovo and NVIDIA have announced a major expansion of their collaboration, with a focus on pioneering generative AI solutions for enterprise. The two tech giants aim to make the power of generative AI accessible to enterprises everywhere. This announcement was made during the annual global Lenovo Tech World keynote event in Austin, Texas.

Under this collaboration, Lenovo will provide fully-integrated systems designed to bring AI-powered compute to all data creation points, from the edge to the cloud. The goal is to enable businesses to effortlessly deploy customised generative AI applications to drive innovation and transformation across various industries.

Lenovo chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang described the new offerings during the event. They emphasised the need for end-to-end solutions that bring together accelerated systems, AI software, and expert services, enabling businesses to quickly develop and deploy custom AI models using their own data.

This partnership is supported by the newly introduced Lenovo AI Professional Services Practice, offering enterprises a hybrid cloud approach. Companies can build their custom AI models using NVIDIA AI Foundations cloud service and then run them on on-prem Lenovo systems, which are powered by NVIDIA’s latest hardware and software specifically designed for generative AI.

Kirk Skaugen, president of Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group, highlighted the significance of this partnership, stating, “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.”

Bob Pette, vice president of Enterprise Platforms at NVIDIA, echoed similar sentiments, emphasising the need for flexible solutions that allow businesses to develop and deploy workloads across various environments, including workstations, data centres, and clouds.

Lenovo’s NVIDIA-powered systems are optimised to run NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, ensuring secure, supported, and stable production AI. These systems utilise the NVIDIA NeMo framework and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) techniques to create generative AI applications customised for specific business data.

At the core of this partnership are the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 server and ThinkStation PX workstation, both optimised for production AI using NVIDIA AI Enterprise. These systems incorporate advanced components, such as NVIDIA L40S GPUs, NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, and NVIDIA Spectrum-X networking.

Additionally, the ThinkStation PX brings expanded AI capabilities to desktops, accommodating up to 4x NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada GPUs.

Lenovo and NVIDIA are also working on next-generation systems based on the NVIDIA MGX modular reference design. These systems will provide secure solutions for demanding generative AI workloads, enabling businesses to implement immersive simulations and cognitive decisions at scale with NVIDIA Omniverse.

Furthermore, the Lenovo solutions will support the recently announced VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA, streamlining the adoption of generative AI for VMware customers.

In their joint effort, Lenovo and NVIDIA are making it easier for businesses to deploy AI confidently and embark on AI-driven transformations. They are introducing the Lenovo AI Professional Services Practice and Lenovo’s TruScale aaS offering, both of which offer a wide range of services, solutions, and platforms to help businesses of all sizes leverage AI quickly, cost-effectively, and at scale. 

This initiative is aimed at bringing AI from concept to reality, with services ranging from AI roadmap design to platform deployment and technology utilisation transparency through the Lenovo TruScale Hub.