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In an era of constant Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven transformations, Lenovo continues to lead innovation through a bold hybrid-led strategy that envisions unified AI ecosystems.
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As the world’s largest PC maker, the company has shifted its focus in recent years from manufacturing devices to developing multi-platform systems that fluidly adapt to peoples’ needs.
“Compute now can go anywhere. It used to be it required this big system that was cool. You still have that, and there are use cases for that, but it can really go anywhere,” Steve Long, Senior Vice President of Lenovo’s Intelligent Devices Group (IDG), told Euronews Next.
“Now, a PC or a computer can be almost in anything, and so that unleashes a lot of experiences that we think Lenovo can differentiate on.”
Adaptive AI devices are at the forefront of Lenovo’s latest unveilings, many of which were on display at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. These include novel new designs like a rollable laptop, conceptual foldable gaming handset, and the rollout of Lenovo Qira.
The latter was first announced at CES earlier this year, and is a personal AI super agent designed to work across different platforms. This allows it to learn more about you and your workflows, becoming a hyper-efficient digital double that can anticipate almost every need.
“You may be doing a task on your phone and you want [Qira] to come straight over to your tablet, and it remembers and picks up exactly [where it left off] and has the context – not only of what you were doing, but the history of, again, with your permission, who you are and what you’re interested in,” Long explained.
“Qira is allowing someone to advance from search to actually predicting and suggesting and working on your behalf,” he added.
While seen by many business leaders as the future of automating and streamlining work tasks, the rapid rise of agentic AI has also generated concerns about security breaches and the potential for AI agents to go rogue – with some experts warning they require background checks.
Long believes that, alongside ensuring the right security and governance is in place for such tools, it’s also important that consumers are given the option to opt in and weight up the benefits.
“The access is showing them how Qira can drive better productivity, or how it can drive even employee retention, because employees are more satisfied, or can get something done faster,” he said.
“The biggest cultural element is actually people, and so convincing people that it’s acceptable. Think about the self-driving car, and how today you can get in a car and let it drive itself, but a lot of people are still resistant to that. I think you’re going to see the same thing happen as we continue experiments with agents and letting them take actions on your behalf.”
Alongside expanding the capabilities of intelligent systems, Lenovo has also been experimenting with new screen forms. Its aforementioned rollable laptop has sparked most curiosity, with a 14-inch screen that can expand vertically to 16.7 inches. This taps into a burgeoning sector of portable tech solves the issue of its sacrificed screen real estate.
“The screen adjusts when you want a larger screen for immersive content, or if you’re watching something. It can then roll and fold back down to a normal laptop when you’re walking around with it,” Long said, adding that it’s been especially popular with gamers.
He also noted that the capabilities of voice interaction drive further revolutions in their future products – and how people interact with their devices in general.
“You can create postcards by talking, you create a PowerPoint presentation through voice,” he said, referencing the Lenovo AI Workmate prototype, which features a robot head that can project images downward.
“These are things that we know you can do if you’re technically able, but we’re trying to take it to the masses, and I’m excited about that.”