Lenovo Liu Jun: Full stack intelligence gathers joint forces for Chinese AI ecology and comprehensively drives AI inclusive

On January 9, the 2024 Global CES Exhibition officially opened. association The Group exhibited more than 10 AI PC products and more than 40 intelligent terminal products. Liu Jun, executive vice president of Lenovo Group and president of China, said in an interview with the media at the exhibition that "end" is Lenovo's starting point and its field of expertise, but now Lenovo is far more than "end", but an AI solution and service provider based on the new IT stack intelligent strategic layout of "end edge cloud network intelligence".

It is understood that Lenovo officially released the whole stack intelligent strategy last August, and it is also the first AI solution and service provider in the industry to complete the whole stack intelligent layout. Liu Jun said that since 2017, Lenovo has embarked on the layout of "full stack intelligence" around the new IT architecture of "end edge cloud network intelligence". At present, it has formed AI embedded intelligent terminals, AI oriented infrastructure AI's original solution serves the complete business layout in three directions (Lenovo internally calls it the 3S business), and has key module capabilities with outstanding competitive advantages in each business segment. For the first time, Liu Jun made a comprehensive and in-depth interpretation.

AI embedded intelligent terminals, through the strategic layout of "one body and multiple ends", are committed to making everyone have AI, while emphasizing privacy and security; AI oriented infrastructure, with a complete layout of general computing, scientific computing and intelligent computing, builds a heterogeneous intelligent computing platform on top of abundant AI servers, AI storage and other devices to create a stable and efficient solid base for enterprises; AI's native solution service starts from consulting and customizes the solution for the implementation of the large model according to the actual situation of the customer, and provides full cycle services to open up the "last mile" of the industrial application of the large model.

^{Liu Jun, Executive Vice President of Lenovo Group and President of China, was interviewed by the media during CES 2024}

Since 2023, AI big model and generative AI and other technologies have exploded in many places drive The accelerated transformation of the industry has reached a new turning point of the era. Under the big era, China is forming an independent AI ecology, leading the construction of modern industrial system with scientific and technological innovation, and urgently needs full stack technical support including big models&applications, intelligent infrastructure, terminal AI technology, etc.

The mission is like a torch, and the original heart is like a rock. Liu Jun said that at present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation in the world are in the ascendant. Lenovo will adhere to scientific and technological innovation, use the whole stack intelligent layout to gather joint forces for Chinese AI ecology, comprehensively drive AI inclusive, shape new momentum and new advantages for Chinese enterprises' intelligent transformation, and build new quality productivity for China's high-quality economic development, And turn the grand blueprint of Chinese style modernization into a beautiful reality step by step.

AI embedded intelligent terminal: comprehensively promote "integrated multi terminal", and release AI OS within the year

After 40 years of accumulation and precipitation, Lenovo has formed a very comprehensive and powerful "end product" layout, ranking first in the global PC, third in the global tablet computer, seventh in the global mobile phone, etc. At present, hybrid AI, Agent (s), AI native applications and terminal OS are reshaping terminal cognition. Based on the end side advantages, Lenovo is planning ahead and is comprehensively promoting the strategy of "one body with multiple ends".

Liu Jun said that Lenovo's "one body" in its "one body multi end" strategy has two meanings: first, build a unified AI OS on the basis of the personal big model and AI application ecology; Second, the task of personal agent will shuttle through a variety of AI terminals to integrate them. "Multi end" includes the most representative AI PC, as well as AI terminal devices such as AI tablet, AI mobile phone, smart large screen, AIoT, which bring disruptive innovation experience to people's work, study, life and other scenes.

Lenovo is building "AI OS (operating system) for intelligent terminal" around multi end products, and will officially release it this year. This is the first time that he proposed "AI OS for intelligent terminals" to the outside world, that is, driven by AI technology, intelligent terminals will be embedded with personal agents (agents), personal big models, local knowledge bases, and application interfaces, forming the next generation of AI OS.

Liu Jun believes that just like the two technological changes brought to the PC industry by "miniaturization and graphics" and "networking and mobility", the breakthrough of AI technology will set off a third wave of technological revolution in all intelligent terminal product fields such as PC, mobile phone, AIoT, and reshape the terminal experience and industrial ecology.

AI PC is the first stop of Lenovo's "integrated multi terminal" strategic layout. The personal big model, personal knowledge base and personal agent are embedded in the device to complete the upgrade of personal AI assistant identity. PC is the best choice.

Liu Jun revealed that in the first half of this year, Lenovo will successively release AI PCs embedded in personal agents and personal big models. This will mean that Lenovo will continue to push AI PC into a new stage of development. With the help of personal agent and personal big model, AI PC will realize multimodal natural language interaction, greatly improve the ability to understand intentions and better understand user needs.

In the early stage, AI PC is more like the user's personal AI assistant. In the long run, it is the user's digital extension and digital image, just like the "AI twins of individual users". A truly mature AI PC should have five core features: embedded personal agent to realize multimodal natural language interaction; Embed personal big model composed of local big model and personalized local knowledge base; Local hybrid AI computing power of fully standard CPU+GPU+NPU; Open and connected AI application ecology; Provide device level localized personal data and privacy protection scheme.

AI PC can be divided into two stages: AI Ready and AI On. AI Ready: basic local hybrid AI computing power, capable of Software And service innovation to provide basic guarantee and start experience innovation; At the initial stage, it was mainly manifested in the upgrade of chip computing architecture. AI On stage: It has complete five core features of AI PC.

The five core features of AI PC are a process of gradual iterative growth. Over the past two months, Lenovo has fully demonstrated its position as a global PC leader in the AI PC field, not only taking the lead in releasing the world's first AI PC product, but also fully assuming the role of an ecological organizer, releasing China's first White Paper on AI PC Industry (China), which fully defines AI PC.

Liu Jun said that the AI PC products released by various manufacturers at this stage, including Lenovo, are all AI Ready products. From AI Ready to AI On, it is a process of gradual growth and iteration. He emphasized that "AI PC is the most important product of Lenovo this year, which is highly valued internally and has invested huge R&D resources. In addition to developing software, the more important task is to establish an ecosystem so that many applications can run on Lenovo's product platform."

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At this CES, Lenovo not only displayed more than 10 AI PC products, but also more than 40 new smart terminals. While promoting the formation of AI PC industry ecology, Lenovo is accelerating the development process of other intelligent terminal products, actively deploying unified AI OS and application ecology, and innovating AI terminal integration experience, so as to help China accelerate the formation of a complete intelligent terminal ecosystem and let everyone have AI.

AI oriented infrastructure: complete layout to create a stable and efficient computing base

At present, computing power has become the core driving force for the development of the digital economy, and is integrated into the blueprint of digital China. The strategy of "counting from the east to the west" has established a national integrated computing network, and a new starting point of computing is taking shape.

Seizing new opportunities in the AI era, Lenovo's AI oriented infrastructure has also made rapid progress in recent years. Liu Jun said that Lenovo has accumulated and deployed for many years in the fields of general computing, scientific computing and intelligent computing, and has gained a leading edge in combination with technological innovation, global supply chain and other capabilities.

On the device layer, Lenovo has a very comprehensive product line, from general-purpose to AI server, AI storage, plus high-performance computing; In the field of AI server, Lenovo has a complete AI server product matrix from training to integration of training and promotion to reasoning, and has improved the performance of large model training server by 9 times and reasoning by 30 times.

In the future, the ability of the intelligent computing center must be the ability to use mixed computing power such as general computing power, scientific computing power and intelligent computing power. Therefore, on top of the equipment, Lenovo has built a heterogeneous intelligent computing platform, which can match the optimal computing infrastructure according to customers' needs for computing power of different scales, pool the overall computing power and optimize its performance to meet customers' overall needs for the overall computing platform.

From full stack products to intelligent computing center solutions, Lenovo has a solid case accumulation. It is reported that the "Zijinyun Public Computing Center" in Gansu Province, which Lenovo helped build, is the largest public computing platform in northwest China and was successfully selected as the "Digital Transformation and Innovation Case" of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; It helped to build the "Siyuan No.1" high-performance computing center of Shanghai Jiaotong University with a PUE value of 1.1, which is the strongest high-performance computing center among colleges and universities at present. In addition, the Geely Star Smart Computing Center · Intelligent Simulation Platform built by Lenovo with the help of Geely Automobile Group is the largest simulation scientific computing cluster built by domestic automobile manufacturing enterprises at one time.

In 2024, Lenovo will support a richer acceleration processor ecosystem, improve the cluster management ability of AI computing power and general computing power, and continue to create a stable and efficient computing base for customers. Liu Jun said that, standing at the new starting point of computing power in China, Lenovo has cooperated extensively with leading AI computing power ecological enterprises at home and abroad, from large-scale training to edge reasoning and other business areas, to meet the needs of emerging businesses such as industry and enterprise models.

AI native solution service: get through the "last mile" of large model industrial application

The rapid development of large models is accelerating the restructuring of enterprise IT architecture. 2024 will be the first year for the implementation and commercialization of enterprise large-scale model applications.

Liu Jun believes that the big model of the enterprise will be an intelligent transformation accelerator , is the most important engine to completely control the operation of the whole enterprise. Each enterprise will have its own large model based on cloud and local. Lenovo hopes to become a practitioner of enterprise model implementation, an enabler of industry model scenarios, and open up the "last mile" of industrial application of large models.

Lenovo will start with consulting, customize the solution for the implementation of the large model according to the actual situation of the customer, and provide full cycle services: according to the consulting design scheme, Lenovo will provide professional services at each stage of deployment, optimization, upgrade, operation and maintenance and operation.

In the full cycle service, the core product tools and platforms (PaaS) are all based on Lenovo's self-developed technologies, including: enterprise models and enterprise agents, AI platform tools for reasoning and training, AI Force for operation, maintenance and operation, xCloud and intelligent computing center services (one-time delivery or subscription service - Lenovo Apsara service). Among them, the enterprise agents, which originated from the enterprise's big model, are like a smart brain responsible for commanding the enterprise. They automatically understand the intention, plan decomposition, call the internal system of the enterprise, and complete a variety of tasks.

Liu Jun especially emphasized that Lenovo would not make a general model, but would cooperate with industrial partners to carry out secondary in-depth development based on the existing general model, complete the construction of personal model and enterprise model, and jointly grasp the new opportunities in the AI era.

As a "double reality enterprise", Lenovo hopes to use its own practice in intelligent transformation to focus on customers and think about the needs of practical intelligent transformation from the perspective of customers, so as to provide the best solution for customers' real business pain points and make the big model technology be truly implemented in customers and industries.

Green and sustainable: leading low-carbon development and shaping new advantages of intelligence

Green sustainability is the theme of the future of human society and the inevitable requirement of Chinese modernization. Lenovo is the first high-tech manufacturing enterprise in China to pass the verification of SBTi net zero goal. In 2022, it will become the first technology manufacturing enterprise in mainland China to achieve the breakthrough of MSCI ESG AAA. This year, it won the second consecutive year and won the highest global rating of MSCI ESG AAA for two consecutive years. The other side of Lenovo's intelligent strategic layout of the whole stack is low-carbon and green.

Among them, AI embedded intelligent terminals help to promote low-carbon sustainability through product design, packaging, end of life cycle management and other aspects. For example, in the field of product design, Lenovo has been notebook Among the batteries, chargers and other components, PCC is the first to introduce 95% or more of post consumer recycled plastics. By the end of fiscal year 2022, the carbon emissions will be reduced by about 4400 tons.

In terms of AI oriented infrastructure, Lenovo has comprehensively laid out and led the R&D and application of key liquid cooling technologies. At present, it can flexibly apply air cooling mixing, full liquid cooling, complete machine cabinet liquid cooling and single-phase immersion mainstream liquid cooling technologies. Taking the world's first Lenovo Posen warm water full water cooling technology as an example, it supports multiple types of GPUs and CPUs, with heat dissipation efficiency up to 98%, and PUE can be reduced to 1.1 at the best, greatly reducing the energy consumption level of the data center, and powerfully outputting "green productivity".

In terms of AI's original solution services, Lenovo has successively launched intelligent computing center services, ESG low-carbon parks, global supply chain ESG digital management platform, ESG Navigator Lexun enterprise level ESG solutions, carbon neutral comprehensive solutions and services, etc., which has enabled more than 300 leading enterprises in many industries, including automobile manufacturing, petroleum and petrochemical, to save energy and reduce carbon.

At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is in the ascendant in the world. In this arena of scientific and technological innovation, only by coordinating scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation can we catch up and strive to surpass.

Liu Jun said, "We have been gingerly grasping the industrial development opportunities brought by every technological revolution, and our attitude has been the same for many years. If there is any change, our gene for serving customers has become stronger. We think AI will bring great changes to customers. We are willing to challenge risks and accompany customers to complete the mission of the AI era."

Lenovo will continue to innovate in science and technology, adhere to green and intelligent traction, and inject new momentum and advantages into the intelligent transformation of Chinese enterprises.