Lenovo Starts New AI Innovators Program

Lenovo announced its new AI Innovators program, a partner ecosystem enabling its customers to confidently deploy artificial intelligence. The program provides a broad range of support for independent software vendors (ISVs) and their customers looking to bring AI from the lab to scale.

Leveraging the program, Lenovo’s AI Innovators are delivering cognitive decisions at scale across financial, manufacturing, healthcare, retail and smart city applications, enabling vertical use cases like autonomous shopping, predictive maintenance, and clinical decision support. As intelligent transformation accelerates, businesses are turning their focus to strategic AI implementation to unlock greater efficiencies, faster time-to-market, and smarter solutions across data management, security, storage, analytics, and maintenance. In fact, by 2025, the IDC expects overall AI services spending to reach $52.6 billion. However, many enterprises face implementation challenges due to resource limitations and diverse infrastructure requirements.

“Lenovo is focused on leading the intelligent transformation to smarter technology for all with smarter infrastructure solutions and services that unlock intelligence to expand business opportunities and fuel growth,“ said Scott Tease, Vice President and General Manager of HPC and AI, Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group. “The Lenovo AI Innovators partner ecosystem provides a one-stop shop to help customers of all sizes easily deploy AI with confidence. From early proofs of concept to scaling AI, Lenovo’s partner ecosystem provides the full range of support to help businesses simplify implementation across a variety of infrastructures and deploy today’s most innovative AI software, so they can gain actionable decisions in retail stores, factories, hospitals and cities across the world.“

Leveraging Lenovo’s AI infrastructure, the AI Innovators ecosystem has welcomed more than 30 AI ISV partners across a range of applications and services, representing more than $1 billion in venture capital investment, since its inception. Designed as a one-stop shop for enterprise AI, the ecosystem offers a diversity of technology partners, ISVs, industry-focused solutions, hardware, and more, ensuring Innovators can quickly access and deploy the solutions that best suit their clients’ business needs. The gapless ecosystem covers all crucial areas for successful AI deployment, across the broad hardware portfolio from pocket-to-cloud-to-HPC, crossing into middleware, MLops, certified AI platforms, and AI vertical applications, as well as bespoke AI services.