On March 16, local time, in the bustling exhibition area of the NVIDIA GTC conference in San Jose, California, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang shared a significant prediction with Lenovo Group Chairman and CEO Yang Yuanqing: "This is going to be your year! I feel it."
Yang Yuanqing told Huang, "Our business segments are very strong, even stronger than before." Huang responded, "That's great! Very strong, we did it!"
The brief yet enthusiastic exchange between the two tech leaders highlights a major shift occurring in the global AI industry: AI is irreversibly transitioning from the costly "model training" phase into the era of "real-time inference" and mass production.
At this GTC 2026 conference, Lenovo Group and NVIDIA jointly launched a new generation of the Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage™ solution. This initiative aims to accelerate AI deployment, reduce Time-To-First-Token (TTFT), and deliver quantifiable business outcomes across personal, enterprise, and cloud environments.
This new hybrid AI solution from Lenovo extends from devices to data centers and further to gigawatt-scale AI cloud deployments, thereby empowering real-time decision-making, operational efficiency improvements, and intelligent automation worldwide. Yang Yuanqing stated that as agentic AI drives an exponential increase in inference workloads, cost control and per-token performance will become critically important.
At the GTC 2026 event, Lenovo Group officially became the global launch partner for the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72. Compared to the previous generation, the Vera Rubin system offers up to a 10x increase in throughput and reduces per-token cost to one-tenth of the prior generation, enabling significantly faster deployment and lower costs.
With the launch of Vera Rubin, the Agentic AI era has arrived, initiating the largest infrastructure build-out in history. Huang emphasized in his keynote speech, "Vera Rubin is a generational leap, designed to power every phase of AI."
Huang pointed out that the next inflection point for AI will significantly boost demand for accelerated computing, software, and AI factories. Lenovo and NVIDIA are collaborating to provide a full-stack platform that supports future development. Yang Yuanqing added that by integrating NVIDIA AI Enterprise software with Lenovo's full-stack hybrid AI platform and services, Lenovo can help customers scale their AI applications with higher efficiency, lower per-token cost, and faster time-to-production.
Lenovo Group and NVIDIA have collaborated for many years, with Lenovo being a core participant at the annual GTC conference. Currently, the two companies are advancing the real-world production delivery of AI globally through a new generation of AI inference platforms, AI cloud super factories, and industry-specific agentic AI solutions.
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