Lenovo drives enterprise AI development with Nvidia NIM Agent Blueprints

Lenovo has teamed up with Nvidia to offer its customers Nvidia NIM Agent Blueprints. What are NIM Agent Blueprints, you may ask? In short, a catalogue of pre-trained reference AI workflows created by Nvidia. These will help Lenovo’s customers build and deploy customised generative AI applications for specific use cases.

It’s easier to understand via examples. One of the first NIM Agent Blueprints available to Lenovo customers will be a digital human workflow for customer service, so rather than a company having to work this out themselves they have a blueprint to follow.

Lenovo will also provide a multimodal PDF data extraction workflow. This will allow generative AI applications to talk to business data for more accurate responses. There’s even a generative virtual screening workflow for accelerated drug discovery.

Lenovo’s promise to customers

Lenovo added that customers can use the Lenovo AI Fast Start Service to customise the blueprints. For example, they can implement industry use cases to meet the needs of their businesses. 

“Generative AI is a full-stack challenge that requires accelerated infrastructure, specialised software and services,and powerful AI-ready devices that can maximise the capabilities of hybrid AI,” said Lenovo chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang.

“Nvidia NIM Agent Blueprints, combined with Lenovo’s comprehensive, end-to-end portfolio, give enterprises a head start for building generative AI applications that they can run everywhere on Lenovo Hybrid AI.”

This latest announcement comes off the back of a series of recent AI services and investments made by the Chinese/American PC manufacturer.

Earlier this year at CES, Lenovo flooded the event with a slew of AI PCs and a demo of its AI Now Personal Assistant, which can attend a meeting on a user’s behalf by capturing an image of a user attending, before replying it on loop.  

And last week it announced Aura Edition laptops, part of a two-year partnership with Intel.

AI really is everywhere

Separately, Lenovo also announced the availability of its Hybrid Cloud Advisory Services. This consulting service helps enterprises simplify their hybrid cloud design and create implementation-ready, future-proofed plans in as little as six weeks. 

Lenovo claims this new service will help enterprises create a customised cloud approach that will be ready for “for today, and ready to flexibly scale and adapt to future needs”.

“We introduced Lenovo Hybrid Cloud Advisory Services to simplify cloud design strategies and pave the way for AI implementations,” said Lenovo Group hybrid cloud services Vice President and General Manager Dale Aultman. 

“We bring a global team of trusted experts to help our customers develop future-proofed, tailor-made solutions to rapidly modernise hybrid clouds and ultimately deliver better business outcomes.”