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Lenovo Charts Next Era of Hybrid Era at CES 2026

At CES 2026, computer and tech company Lenovo has introduced its series of innovations that will propel its vision for a Hybrid AI, introducing a new personal AI super agent, AI personal computers and smartphones, and agentic-native wearables.

In addition, Lenovo Chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang announced during his keynote speech at Sphere in Las Vegas Wednesday its next-generation enterprise AI infrastructure and breakthrough industry collaborations, including that of NVIDIA and FIFA.

“AI is going beyond process management and workflow optimization. It now empowers organizations to use proprietary data generated from their own operations and apply their own decision logic to become a self-learning, self-reinventing entity,” said Yuanqing.

Lenovo Chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang delivers his keynote speech at CES 2026. Image Credit: Lenovo

Breakthrough Device Experience in AI Era

At CES 2026, Lenovo has unveiled a couple of AI-driven devices and technologies. Among them is the Lenovo and Motorola Qira personal AI super agent. Specifically, it works seamlessly across Lenovo and Motorola devices, including computers, smartphones, tablets, and wearables to deliver a more context-aware assistance.

Lenovo Chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang and NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang

During Yuanqing’s keynote, the company also announced its next generation of Aura Edition AI PCs powered by Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 processors and co-engineered to unify personalized performance. The portfolio includes four models, including the ThinkPad X1 and X1 2-in-1 Aura edition notebook computers that comes with adaptive intelligence and advanced security, among others.

Lenovo’s CES 2026 also featured its expanded premium smartphone portfolio under the Motorola brand with two flagship AI devices — the 8.1-inch display motorola razr fold and the motorola signature with 50MP AI cameras powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 mobile platform.

Lenovo has also showcased its series of proofs of concept of AI-enabled devices, including the ThinkPad Rollable XD Concept, an out-folding device; Lenovo AI Glasses Concept, an AI-powered multimedia glasses; and the Lenovo Smart Sense Display Concept, an intelligent display hub that connects multiple devices.

Lenovo Chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan (Image Credit: Lenovo)

Enterprise and Industrial AI

Lenovo also announced solutions for enterprise and industrial operations. Specifically, the company introduced its most comprehensive inferencing optimized server portfolio in the new Lenovo ThinkSystem and Lenovo ThinkEdge server line.

These server systems three server models that deliver robust AI inferencing power for workloads of any size across many industries. Combined with Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage, customers benefit from unparalleled expertise, use cases, and full lifecycle support.

Lenovo also announced its next phase for its Hybrid AI Advantage with the launche of Lenovo Agentic AI, a new full-lifecycle enterprise solution for creating, deploying, and managing AI agents, and Lenovo xIQ a new suite of AI-native delivery platforms designed to simplify, accelerate, and operationalize AI across the enterprise.

Lenovo Chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang and AMD CEO Lisa Su

Industry Partnerships

During his keynote speech, Yuanqing announced partnership with industry players in enabling next-generation technologies.

Yuanqing announced the Lenovo AI Cloud Gigafactory with NVIDIA, expanding and reinforcing its partnership between the two companies. NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang joined Yuanqing during his keynote in announcing the gigawatt-scale AI factory program.

With Lenovo AI Cloud Gigafactory with NVIDIA, AI cloud providers can be among the first to tap the power of NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra high-performance architecture.

The program will also support the newly announced NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 flagship system for AI training and inference – which unifies 72 Rubin GPUs, 36 Vera CPUs, ConnectX-9 SuperNICs, BlueField-4 DPUs, and Spectrum-X Ethernet in a rack-scale AI supercomputer to power next-generation gigawatt AI factories.

Intel’s CEO Lip-Bu Tan also joined Lenovo’s Yuanqing’s keynote as the two discussed how Lenovo’s latest generation of Aura Edition AI PCs are powered by Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 processors.

Yuanqing also welcomed AMD’s CEO Lisa Su on stage as they announced how AMD’s EPYC CPU and Instinct GPUs are powering Lenovo’s data center server systems.

Meanwhile, as official partner of the FIFA World Cup 2026 and FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027, Lenovo and FIFA announced Football. AI Pro. Built with Lenovo’s AI Factory, Football AI Pro is a specialized football interaction tool that orchestrates multiple agents to scour millions of data points to analyze over 2,000 different metrics and deliver rapid insights for analysts, coaches, and players.

Lenovo and Formula 1 also announced the deployment of Lenovo Neptune Liquid Cooling technology to drive the next wave of broadcast innovation. Lenovo’s solution optimizes the organization’s high performance computing (HPC) footprint and represents a key step toward its wider sustainability goals while helping deliver live broadcasts to more than 820 million fans around the world.

09 January 2026