NVIDIAandLenovoThe expanded partnership announced today delivers new hybrid solutions and engineering collaboration in support of their shared vision to bring the power of generative AI to every enterprise.
Through close collaboration with NVIDIA, Lenovo will provide fully integrated systems that bring AI-driven computing to wherever data is generated, from edge to cloud environments, helping companies easily deploy customized generative AI applications to drive innovation and transformation across all industries.
Lenovo Chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang introduced the products during a keynote at Lenovo’s annual Tech World conference in Austin, Texas, and discussed enterprises’ need for end-to-end solutions that combine accelerated systems, AI software and expert services to quickly build and run customized AI models using their own data.
Supported by the new Lenovo AI Professional Services Practice, these solutions enable enterprises to take a hybrid cloud approach, using NVIDIA AI Foundations cloud services to build customized AI models and run them on-premises on Lenovo systems, powered by NVIDIA’s latest hardware and software designed for generative AI.
“Together, Lenovo and NVIDIA are driving a new era of hybrid AI in the enterprise, designing next-generation technologies to build an AI-driven future and unleash the power of data wherever it is created,” said Kirk Skaugen, president of Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group. “This expanded collaboration between Lenovo and NVIDIA on engineering and time-to-market simplifies the path to generative AI for everyone and helps customers everywhere quickly transform their businesses using cutting-edge AI.”
“As generative AI drives the greatest technological transformation of our time, enterprises are looking for solutions that give them the flexibility to develop and deploy workloads across workstations, data centers and the cloud,” said Bob Pette, vice president of enterprise platforms at NVIDIA. “NVIDIA and Lenovo are delivering a comprehensive portfolio of hybrid AI systems that enterprises can rely on to power generative AI virtually anywhere.”
Lenovo’s NVIDIA-powered systems are optimized to run NVIDIA AI Enterprise software for secure, supportable, and stable production AI. Through the NVIDIA NeMo™ framework in NVIDIA AI Enterprise, organizations can customize enterprise-grade large-scale language models available on NVIDIA AI Foundation. Using the latest Retrieval-Augmented Generative (RAG) technology and fine-tuning methods, enterprises can use their unique on-premises data to build optimized generative AI applications running on Lenovo’s hybrid AI solution.
At the heart of the companies’ expanded partnership are Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 servers and ThinkStation PX workstations, which are optimized for production AI running NVIDIA AI Enterprise. The ThinkSystem SR675 V3 will include NVIDIA L40S GPUs, NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, and NVIDIA Spectrum-X networking. The ThinkStation PX will bring expanded AI capabilities and data center performance to desktops by enabling up to four NVIDIA RTX™ 6000 Ada GPUs in the system.
Additionally, Lenovo and NVIDIA will build next-generation systems based on the flexible NVIDIA MGX™ module reference design, providing a variety of powerful and secure solutions to handle the most challenging generative AI workloads and help enterprises achieve immersive simulations and cognitive decision-making at scale using NVIDIA Omniverse™, a platform for connecting and developing OpenUSD applications.
Lenovo’s solutions will also support VMware Private AI Foundation, the recently announced collaboration with NVIDIA, enabling hundreds of thousands of VMware customers to simplify the adoption of generative AI.
Together, the two companies are helping enterprises easily deploy AI with confidence and unlock AI-driven transformation through the new Lenovo AI Professional Services Practice and Lenovo’s TruScale aaS offering, which enables enterprises to take advantage of a pay-as-you-go model.
Lenovo AI Professional Services Practice provides a wide range of services, solutions and platforms to help enterprises of all sizes navigate the field of artificial intelligence, find the right solutions, and quickly and cost-effectively apply artificial intelligence to their organizations at scale. It helps turn artificial intelligence from concept to reality - from designing an AI roadmap to deploying platforms to providing transparency into the use of technology through Lenovo TruScale Hub.