Lenovo is promoting a strategy of cooperation with many different artificial intelligence (AI) models globally, in order to strengthen its ambition to become an international-scale AI provider.
Sharing with Reuters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland), Lenovo's Chief Financial Officer Winston Cheng said that the company advocates not relying on a single major language (LLM) model, but seeking flexibility through many partners.
According to Mr. Cheng, Lenovo (the world's largest personal computer manufacturer) plans to integrate AI into the entire product portfolio, from personal computers, smartphones to wearable devices.
Earlier this month, the company introduced Qira, a pre-integrated multi-device smart system that allows connection with external LLM partners.
We are the only company outside of Apple with significant market share in both the PC and mobile device markets, and present in the open ecosystem of Android and Windows," Mr. Cheng emphasized.
However, unlike Apple, which currently mainly cooperates with OpenAI and Gemini of Google, Lenovo is looking to sign agreements with more LLM developers.
The list of potential partners that Lenovo aims for spans many regions, including Humain in Saudi Arabia, Mistral AI in Europe, and Alibaba and DeepSeek in China.
Mr. Cheng said that Lenovo applies a "coordination method", not developing LLM itself but choosing to cooperate, partly due to differences in AI regulations between countries.
Besides the AI strategy, Lenovo's Chief Financial Officer also frankly warned about the risk of an AI bubble.
According to him, the phenomenon of overvaluation is appearing in both the private and public capital markets.
The market needs to carefully consider operating costs, not just focusing on capital investment costs," Mr. Cheng said and said that long-term economic efficiency is the decisive factor for the sustainability of AI.
Regarding production costs, Mr. Cheng admitted that memory chip prices are increasing sharply, putting pressure on global consumer electronics manufacturers.
In the infrastructure segment, Lenovo announced a partnership with Nvidia in January to help AI cloud service providers quickly deploy data centers through liquid-cooled hybrid AI infrastructure.
According to Mr. Cheng, the two sides will focus on global deployment, local production and consider launching products in Asia or the Middle East, thereby expanding Lenovo's AI mark internationally.
