At the "2023 Lenovo Innovation Open Day" held from June 12 to 17, more than 20 "AI+" industry solutions were unveiled, which comprehensively demonstrated the application of Lenovo's AI innovation technology in industry scenarios for the first time. Driven by the strong application of AI technology in all scenarios and the industry-leading AI technology level, AI has penetrated into all business textures of Lenovo.
From the underlying computing power infrastructure such as AI controllers and AI servers, to artificial intelligence technology platforms such as Lenovo's Edge Brain Edge AI and AI Master, Lenovo has made in-depth layouts in the AI field, promoted the research and development and landing of the two "anchor" technologies of computing and AI, realized computing leadership, AI empowerment, and strong power for technological innovation. As one of the most forward-looking and disruptive technologies today, AI has begun to fully empower industrial upgrading and industry transformation while rapidly evolving and iterating. The application of AI in terminal equipment and edge devices further improves the autonomous decision-making and processing capabilities of intelligent devices, and then realizes unmanned, intelligent production and service, combined with big data models and industry solutions, Al is comprehensively changing our work and life, and ultimately changing our world.
AI+ industry solutions debuted in a panoramic manner
At this innovation open day, Lenovo took "AI+" as a clue to display for the first time more than 20 industry solutions empowered by Lenovo machine vision, prompt learning, small sample lifelong learning and other underlying AI technologies, further demonstrating Lenovo's technical advantages in the AI field and the hard verification power that empowers the application of industry scenarios.
In the manufacturing scenario, Lenovo Leyan Industrial Quality Inspection Solution upgrades the quality inspection link of manufacturing plants to AI intelligent inspection units through innovative technologies such as self-developed small sample learning, screen inspection, and fine segmentation, reducing labor costs, effectively improving the intelligent level and production efficiency of quality inspection, ensuring "yield rate" while improving overall production capacity; In the outbound picking process, Lenovo has created an intelligent picking and scheduling scheme based on reinforcement learning, which can be used in scenarios such as packaging and packing in factories and warehouses, and shipping containers to provide design such as truck transportation path optimization in cities and warehouse robot path planning.
In the transportation field, Lenovo's IoV digital intersection solution, empowered by computer vision and algorithms, can digitize traffic flow based on monocular 3D detection by using existing cameras at intersections. Integrate BEV (bird's-eye view) in time and space. Finally, the location, orientation, size, speed, etc. of traffic participants are clearly displayed under a unified framework, helping the intelligent upgrade of the transportation industry.
In the smart campus scenario, Lenovo's WisEye smart campus video analytics solution enabled the industry's first turnstile that uses video AI for analysis. Using Lenovo's self-developed full-stack intelligent video surveillance analysis technology, the video turnstile recognition range covers faces, human bodies, vehicles, behaviors, etc., compared with infrared solutions, Lenovo video analysis technology can provide a broader "vision" and intelligent "judgment" for the turnstiles in the park, effectively avoid the potential safety hazards caused by the inability to identify pedestrians and items, and help the intelligent transformation and upgrading of the park.
In the field of smart retail, Lenovo's next-generation intelligent unmanned vending cabinet is based on edge heterogeneous computing power, and can realize personalized advertising push through visual recognition algorithms and applications. Lenovo Smart Research Digital Human can capture personal body postures in real time through professional cameras, complete real-time calculations, and drive the rendering of 3D cartoon images, meeting the application of VIP video customer service, online intelligent customer service, automatic interactive training and other diverse scenarios.
More than 20 AI+ industry solutions indicate that in promoting the intelligent transformation and upgrading of the industry, the industry scenario solutions supported by Lenovo's AI technology have reached large-scale application. It is understood that with the strong blessing of AI technology, Lenovo has provided leading technical solutions and service capabilities with new IT full-stack full-cycle service capabilities, and has helped more than 200 large and medium-sized enterprises successfully embark on the road of intelligent transformation.
AI+Computing Power two-wheel drive accelerates the process of intelligent transformation of the industry
Whether it is the rapid evolution of AI technology itself or the empowerment of AI to the intelligent transformation of thousands of industries, it is inseparable from the support of computing power, and AI is the latest and most advanced application of computing power. Driven by computing power and AI, Lenovo has further accelerated the intelligent transformation of thousands of industries.
Lenovo relies on leading AI servers and LA series controllers to build hard verification power. Lenovo's AI server, the ThinkSystem SR 670 V2 AI, delivers superior performance and an eco-friendly design to deliver optimal performance for AI, high-performance computing, graphics workloads across industries, including machine learning and deep learning capabilities with its powerful GPUs, accelerated ray-traced rendering of photo-like graphics, automated optical inspection for quality control, and support for natural language processing in call centers.
In addition, Lenovo introduced a new AI-optimized edge-to-cloud server platform to handle a variety of AI workloads. One of the most iconic products, the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE360 V2, is the latest dedicated edge server that provides enhanced performance to support a wide range of AI solutions, from computer vision, voice AI, and generative AI, to support high-load workloads at the data source. At the accelerated computing server level, Lenovo launched the ThinkSystem SR675 V3, which is designed for AI workloads, with flexible configuration modes that can be switched, supporting industrial metaverse, ray tracing, graphics acceleration and other functions, which can combine full analog digital twins with AI to produce improved business processes and design results.
Lenovo's other AI pillar product, the LA series AI controller, was also unveiled at the Innovation Open Day. LA series artificial intelligence controllers are equipped with self-developed core technical architecture and algorithms, combined with CPU, GPU, DDR system overclocking, release the potential performance of the system, and comprehensively improve the smooth game experience. It has artificial intelligence algorithms based on neural networks, which can perform real-time, high-speed, low-power multitasking, and realize computer perception, prediction of user usage scenarios, understanding user habits, and then realize computer performance "adapt to people".
Under the guidance of computing power, Lenovo is also constantly refining the underlying AI technology, and then building an industrial-grade AI platform to jointly promote the intelligent transformation process of thousands of industries with computing power. On the edge side, Lenovo Edge Brain Edge AI enables algorithms to learn reasoning on edge devices, while Lenovo self-developed small-sample lifelong learning and heterogeneous reasoning acceleration technologies to provide industry customers with full-lifecycle cloud-edge-end AI solution construction, deployment, O&M, monitoring and other services, it is reported that the Edge AI platform can save up to 75% of remote deployment time.
While deepening the intelligent transformation of the industry, AI technology itself is also constantly evolving. To this end, Lenovo has built a professional computing power platform and MLOps platform for developers to refine AI masters, which can realize AI development environment, fine-grained resource allocation, multi-dimensional quota management, automatic recovery of idle resources and other capabilities. The platform provides AI developers with services such as persistent workspaces, batch tasks, data visualization, data cleaning, data annotation, model training, and real-time monitoring. On the one hand, AI Master improves resource utilization through flexible computing power management, and on the other hand, reduces the manpower required for AI development through the innovation of computing power.
Recently, Lenovo Group ISG (Infrastructure Solutions Business Group) announced that the annual revenue of the global AI infrastructure business has exceeded 2 billion US dollars (about 15 billion yuan). At the same time, Lenovo Group announced its next phase of growth strategy, which will invest an additional $1 billion over the next three years to further expand Lenovo's industry-leading portfolio of Al-ready smart devices, infrastructure solutions and services to accelerate AI deployment in enterprises around the world.
Build the core capabilities of computing power solutions and services to help the high-quality development of society
AI is accelerating its penetration into capillaries across industries, bringing intelligent changes to technological and economic models. Computing power allows AI to further develop its infinite potential, which is the core driving force of AI evolution. In the new computing era, computing power has become an important engine for economic development in today's digital and intelligent era. Over the past few decades, Lenovo has gradually transformed from a hardware provider to a new IT full-stack product, solution and service provider, and gradually built the core capabilities of computing power solution services.
It is reported that Lenovo has accumulated four core competitive advantages through its own transformation practice and technical advantages in computing power solution services. First of all, based on the new IT full-stack technology and product advantages, it can maximize the acceleration of scenarios of Puhui computing power. Secondly, in terms of software management and application, Lenovo has also accelerated the implementation of a diversified software ecosystem including world leaders such as SAP and VMware. Third, the full-process accompaniment of the solution service is specifically reflected in the Lenovo Reserve subscription service, which provides computing power services according to customer customized needs to help customers effectively reduce TCO. Fourth, through warm water cooling technology and full-chain green safety technology guarantee, it will help accelerate the realization of Lenovo's 2050 net-zero emission goal.
It is understood that IDC, a world-renowned market research institution, released the x86 server global market tracking report for the first quarter of 2023. According to the report, in the first quarter of 2023, Lenovo Group grew by a significant 39.9% year-on-year, ranking third in the world and becoming the only company to achieve significant growth. As of May 2023, Lenovo servers have achieved 463 performance test world records. In addition, among the world's 500 most powerful scientific computing clusters released at ISC2023 in Hamburg, Germany, in May 2023, Lenovo topped the list for the 11th consecutive time with 169 shortlisted units.
Lenovo has successively helped Geely Automobile, Zoomlion, Sany Heavy Industry and other enterprises complete the road of intelligent transformation with hard computing power. It is reported that Lenovo helped Geely Automobile build a high-performance computing center and completed 12,000+ simulated safety crash experiments per vehicle, enabling it to obtain simulation data faster and accelerate the research and development of new vehicles. Lenovo also helped Zoomlion build a digital foundation, which improved its core business response speed by 7.5 times, reduced the failure rate of the entire system operation and maintenance by 30%, and reduced the annual TCO (full-cycle cost of use) by 50%. In addition, Lenovo also cooperated with Zijin Cloud Big Data Center to build the first commercial high-performance computing platform in Northwest China, the Zijin Cloud high-performance computing platform.
In the new computing era, Lenovo Group will further leverage its computing power advantages, use "Puhui computing power" to promote Puhui intelligence, vigorously promote infrastructure innovation empowered by artificial intelligence technology, adhere to AI innovation and continue to increase, further expand the development of AI-ready infrastructure solutions, help customers embrace AI more easily, and provide transformative services and products to the market. As a company that started with computing, computing power can be described as the gene of Lenovo and the source of technological innovation, and AI is the latest and most advanced application of computing power. Facing the future, computing leads and AI empowers, Lenovo will rely on this to continue technological innovation and promote the high-quality development of human society.