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Xinmei Shen

Personal computer giant Lenovo Group has unveiled a new personal AI agent and a host of enterprise artificial intelligence initiatives at CES this year, in a splashy display of its AI ambitions.
Lenovo on Tuesday announced Qira, a “personal AI super agent” designed to work across multiple devices including Lenovo laptops, tablets and Motorola smartphones.
Qira can summarise notifications, offer real-time transcriptions and translations, and coordinate other AI agents for tasks such as travel bookings. It is able to work locally offline, and is expected to become highly personalised over time, according to Lenovo.
Qira is “completely different” from previous consumer AI features Lenovo has introduced, Lenovo chairman and CEO Yang Yuanqing said in a media briefing on Wednesday.
“An AI PC is just an AI-embedded device, and an AI phone is just an entry point for users to connect to public AI,” Yang said. “This year we want to introduce the personalised AI concept to consumers.”
Qira is mainly based on OpenAI’s GPT models, but uses Microsoft’s Phi-4 mini model for local capabilities, according to a staff member at the Lenovo booth. Lenovo would roll out Qira on select devices in the first quarter, the company said.

The AI agent forms part of Lenovo’s “hybrid AI” strategy that targets both consumer and enterprise markets. The world’s largest PC maker doubled down on artificial intelligence in 2023, aiming to position itself as a leader across AI consumer devices, AI computing infrastructure and enterprise AI solutions.
At its annual Tech World event at CES this year, the Beijing and Morrisville, US, dual-headquartered company took centre stage at the Sphere, a massive music and entertainment arena in Las Vegas that is equipped with a 16K resolution wraparound interior LED dome screen and 580,000 sq ft of LED displays on its exterior.
Lenovo’s glitzy presentation at the Sphere featured tech industry heavyweights including Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Advanced Micro Devices chair and CEO Lisa Su. It featured dazzling 4D visual effects and concluded with a musical performance by American singer-songwriter Gwen Stefani.
The Tech World event this year attracted 14,000 attendees, almost filling up the Sphere which has a total capacity of 20,000, a spokesperson told the Post. Lenovo sponsored the Post’s trip to its event at CES 2026.
Nvidia’s Huang, appearing on stage alongside Yang on Tuesday, spoke about AI becoming the “foundational layer” for future applications and the “exponentially growing” amount of computing power that would be required for AI inferencing.
The executives then announced the Lenovo AI Cloud Gigafactory with Nvidia, a so-called AI factory system that lets enterprises train and deploy AI models at scale. The Lenovo platform uses Nvidia’s newly launched Rubin graphics processing units, Yang said.
Lenovo is also venturing into robotics. Its six-legged robot dog Daystar is being used by China’s State Grid Corporation for surveillance and patrols in environments difficult for human workers, Ken Wong, Lenovo’s executive vice president and president of its Solutions & Services Group, said in an interview on Monday.
The robot dog already had a “big customer” in the Middle East using it for surveillance, and a Hong Kong government department was also using its robotic technology for surveillance on some of the city’s infrastructure, Wong said.


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The AI agent forms part of Lenovo’s ‘hybrid AI’ strategy that targets both consumer and enterprise markets


The AI agent forms part of Lenovo’s ‘hybrid AI’ strategy that targets both consumer and enterprise markets.


Lenovo unveils new AI agent, Nvidia tie-up in glitzy show at CES 2026

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The AI agent forms part of Lenovo’s ‘hybrid AI’ strategy that targets both consumer and enterprise markets