Lenovo’s Hybrid AI Leap: Empowering Enterprise Transformation

Lenovo’s Hybrid AI Leap: Empowering Enterprise Transformation

Accelerating AI Adoption with Confidence

AI is no longer a buzzword—it’s a business imperative. But for many enterprises, the journey from potential to performance remains elusive. Lenovo’s latest expansion of its Hybrid AI Advantage™ aims to change that. With new advisory services and implementation frameworks, the company is helping organizations move beyond experimentation and into real-world impact.

The newly launched Lenovo AI Adoption & Change Management Services are designed to address a critical gap: workforce readiness. According to Lenovo’s Global CIO Playbook, two-thirds of organizations still struggle to see ROI from AI investments. The culprit? A lack of training, adoption strategies, and scalable infrastructure.

Lenovo’s solution is both strategic and human-centric. The AI People Readiness Assessment evaluates employee preparedness and identifies high-impact use cases. Persona-based training tailors learning to specific roles, reducing resistance and boosting engagement. Copilot Adoption programs help employees integrate generative AI tools into daily workflows. And AI Governance frameworks ensure responsible use and cultural alignment.

Ken Wong, EVP and President of Lenovo’s Solutions and Services Group, puts it plainly: “AI adoption demands a clear strategy, trusted expertise, and the right technology mix.” Lenovo’s approach delivers all three.

Industry-Specific AI Solutions That Deliver

Lenovo isn’t just talking about AI—it’s deploying it. Across manufacturing, hospitality, retail, and smart spaces, the company is rolling out validated, purpose-built solutions that solve real problems.

In hospitality, Lenovo has partnered with Centific and NVIDIA to create AI-powered platforms that enhance guest loyalty and operational efficiency. Hotels and resorts can now personalize experiences in real time, streamline operations, and generate actionable insights from data.

Workplace safety is another area seeing transformation. Lenovo’s collaboration with Avathon and NVIDIA enables real-time hazard detection and PPE compliance monitoring. Using existing camera infrastructure, the system identifies safety violations and automates corrective actions—preventing accidents before they happen.

Retail and smart spaces benefit from Lenovo’s partnership with WaitTime and Intel. Edge AI-based computer vision turns camera feeds into crowd analytics, helping venues optimize traffic flow and boost guest satisfaction—sometimes by as much as 30%.

On the factory floor, Lenovo’s work with Trifork and NVIDIA is revolutionizing quality inspection. Automated defect detection and on-device model retraining convert sensor data into insights, improving production outcomes and reducing waste.

These aren’t pilot programs. They’re deployed solutions driving measurable results.

Building the Hybrid AI Factory of the Future

At the heart of Lenovo’s strategy is the hybrid AI factory—a scalable, high-performance infrastructure that supports AI workloads anywhere, anytime. This vision is powered by partnerships with Cisco, IBM, and NVIDIA.

The new Lenovo ThinkSystem SR680a V4 is a beast. Air-cooled and built for performance, it features Intel Xeon 6 CPUs and eight NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. High-speed NVLink interconnects, SuperNICs, and BlueField-3 DPUs deliver up to 11x faster AI inferencing on large language models. Compared to previous generations, it offers 7x computational capability and 4x more memory.

Lenovo’s hybrid AI platform with IBM watsonx combines ThinkSystem SR675 servers, Red Hat OpenShift, and NVIDIA technologies. It’s a ready-to-deploy infrastructure for generative AI model development, deployment, and governance.

Meanwhile, the Lenovo-Cisco platform integrates Cisco Nexus switches with NVIDIA Spectrum-X. This setup boosts AI network performance by 1.6x and simplifies management via the Cisco Nexus Dashboard. Built on the ThinkSystem SR675 V3, it supports up to eight NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPUs, making it ideal for greenfield environments or extensions of existing IT infrastructure.

These platforms aren’t just powerful—they’re universal. They support AI use cases across industries, enabling enterprises to build, scale, and operate AI factories with confidence.

Real Outcomes, Real Impact

Lenovo’s billion-dollar investment in AI is paying off. The company reports a 40% year-over-year increase in customer adoptions worldwide. And the results are tangible.

In aviation, Lenovo helped a leading airline transform its digital workplace using AI. A three-month advisory program improved operational efficiencies and boosted employee confidence. In healthcare, Lenovo’s solutions are accelerating diagnoses and scientific discovery. In manufacturing, they’re optimizing workflows and reducing defects.

The Hybrid AI Advantage isn’t just a product—it’s a framework. It brings together infrastructure, data, models, services, and proven use cases. It’s designed to activate AI across the entire enterprise—from the edge to the cloud.

Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, President of Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group, sums it up: “Lenovo is turning AI into reality with use cases and services that have been tested and proven to drive measurable productivity gains.”

A Democratized Future for AI

Lenovo’s vision is bold: to make enterprise-level AI attainable for every business. With integrated solutions deployed on devices, at the edge, and in the cloud, the company is democratizing access to AI.

Whether an organization is just starting its AI journey or scaling existing capabilities, Lenovo offers a path forward. Its end-to-end portfolio supports every stage of transformation, from readiness assessments to full-scale deployment.

The Hybrid AI Advantage is more than a product suite—it’s a movement. It’s about empowering organizations to work smarter, faster, and with greater confidence. And it’s about building a future where AI is not just a tool, but a trusted partner in business success.

Expanded Ecosystem Delivers the Hybrid AI Factory of Modern Business 

The expansion builds on Lenovo partnerships with Cisco, IBM and NVIDIA, delivering new integrated solutions that accelerates global enterprise AI adoption. Built on advanced, energy-efficient AI infrastructure integrated with accelerated computing, networking, switching and software from industry-leading partners, new platforms help enterprises build, scale and operate hybrid AI factories:

• New Lenovo ThinkSystem SR680a V4 system: Built to unleash AI’s potential by delivering massive computational performance for model development, graphical and simulation workloads across any industry. The air-cooled system features Intel Xeon 6 CPUs and eight NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs interconnected with high-speed NVIDIA NVLink for unparalleled computational power and acceleration, as well as eight NVIDIA SuperNICs and an NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU to accelerate network connectivity, data access and secure AI workloads. The new system delivers up to 11x faster AI inferencing on large language models, as well as 7x computational capability and 4x more memory compared to previous generations.
• Lenovo hybrid AI platform with IBM watsonx:​The platform delivers ready-to-deploy, high-performance AI infrastructure, built on Lenovo ThinkSytem SR675 servers, Red Hat OpenShift, and NVIDIA, accelerating generative AI model development, deployment and governance.
• Lenovo Hybrid AI platform with Cisco: The enhanced platform will support Cisco Nexus switches with NVIDIA Spectrum-X technology for boosting enterprise AI factory deployments, enabling 1.6x faster AI network performance and efficient networking management with Cisco Nexus Dashboard in a single design. The platform supports AI use cases as new, greenfield environments or extensions of existing IT infrastructure. Built on the powerful Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 server supporting up to eight NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, NVIDIA SuperNICs, and NVIDIA BlueField-3, the platform provides enterprises with a universal data center system to power AI factories — driving the shift from CPU-based systems to efficient GPU-accelerated infrastructure.

Regardless of where enterprises are on their AI journey, Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage solutions and services help customers achieve real business outcomes using trusted and proven AI infrastructure —whether just starting, scaling, or optimizing capabilities. Lenovo’s end-to-end hybrid AI portfolio heralds a more democratized and personalized turning point for AI, with integrated solutions deployed on devices, on the edge, and in the cloud.

Explore more hybrid AI solutions and see how Lenovo is powering the future of modern business at https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/servers-storage/solutions/ai.