Lenovo has expanded its Hybrid AI Advantage initiative with a new set of services, solutions, and platform enhancements designed to help enterprises adopt, scale and operate AI more effectively. The latest rollout includes advisory and implementation services, industry-specific AI solutions, and integrated platforms developed in partnership with Cisco, IBM, and NVIDIA.
The launch reflects Lenovo’s continued focus on building a complete framework for AI transformation, combining infrastructure, data, models, and practical use cases. According to Lenovo, these developments aim to simplify AI deployment across various business environments and improve return on investment through better workforce adoption and scalable performance.
Bridging the gap in AI adoption
Despite widespread interest in AI, many organisations still face challenges when scaling projects beyond the pilot phase. Lenovo’s Global CIO Playbook reports that around two-thirds of companies have yet to realise ROI from their AI investments. Common barriers include gaps in training, adoption, and infrastructure readiness. With AI budgets expected to rise significantly—reaching nearly 20% of overall IT spending in 2025—the pressure is mounting for businesses to modernise their systems and extract real value from AI.
“Lenovo is leading hybrid AI with groundbreaking advancements in integrated solutions that are driving industry-wide innovation and making enterprise-level AI attainable for every business,” said Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, President of Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group. “With these solutions and trusted partnerships, Lenovo is turning AI into reality with use cases and services that have been tested and proven to drive measurable productivity gains, boost satisfaction, and unlock data for real business value faster.”
To support enterprise readiness, Lenovo has introduced new AI Adoption and Change Management Services aimed at assessing organisational readiness, improving employee training, and driving responsible AI use. The services are tailored to employee roles, with frameworks that include readiness assessments, role-specific training, Copilot adoption, and AI governance.
“AI adoption demands a clear strategy, trusted expertise, and the right technology mix that can accelerate time to value,” said Ken Wong, Executive Vice President and President of Lenovo’s Solutions and Services Group. “With the Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage, we are helping customers turn AI potential into real performance gains, enabling every part of the organisation to work smarter, faster, and with greater confidence.”
Purpose-built solutions for industry transformation
Lenovo is also advancing its industry-specific offerings, launching AI solutions targeted at sectors such as hospitality, manufacturing, retail, and workplace safety. These include:
- A hospitality solution developed with Centific AI and NVIDIA that enhances guest experience through personalisation and data insights.
- A workplace safety system created with Avathon and NVIDIA that uses visual AI for real-time hazard detection and compliance monitoring.
- A crowd analytics tool built with WaitTime and Intel, designed to optimise foot traffic and guest satisfaction in retail and public venues.
- A quality inspection platform with Trifork and NVIDIA, focused on real-time defect detection and sensor data analysis in industrial environments.
These new offerings build on Lenovo’s AI Innovator programme, which features validated solution designs from independent software vendors.
Partnerships powering AI infrastructure
The updated Hybrid AI Advantage also includes enhanced AI platforms developed with Cisco, IBM, and NVIDIA. These platforms offer pre-validated, energy-efficient systems for building scalable AI infrastructure.
The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR680a V4, equipped with Intel Xeon 6 processors and NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, delivers significant performance improvements in model development and inferencing tasks. According to Lenovo, the system offers up to 11 times faster inferencing for large language models compared to previous generations.
In partnership with IBM, Lenovo has introduced a new hybrid AI platform based on IBM watsonx and Lenovo’s SR675 servers. This setup supports accelerated development, deployment and governance of generative AI models, using Red Hat OpenShift and NVIDIA technologies.
Meanwhile, Lenovo’s collaboration with Cisco integrates NVIDIA Spectrum-X networking with Cisco Nexus switches, enabling faster AI performance and streamlined management. The solution can be used for both greenfield deployments and existing IT infrastructure extensions.
Lenovo’s Hybrid AI Advantage aims to support enterprises at any stage of their AI journey, providing modular and scalable solutions that can be deployed on devices, at the edge, or in the cloud. With customer adoption rising nearly 40% year-over-year, Lenovo continues to invest in making AI more accessible, productive, and aligned with business needs.
