[Shanghai, May 11, 2024] On the afternoon of May 11, 2024, the Global Huizhou Business Shanghai Forum was held at the Shanghai International Convention Center. Yang Yuanqing, Chairman of the Huizhou Business Association and CEO of Lenovo Group, delivered a welcome speech at the forum. In his speech and subsequent interviews, Yang Yuanqing stated that the development of new quality productivity should focus on enhancing quality through intelligence, leveraging artificial intelligence as the engine for nurturing new quality productivity. By promoting hybrid artificial intelligence, every enterprise and individual can easily and quickly utilize artificial intelligence, enabling them to become the driving force for innovation and creation.
Yang Yuanqing emphasized in his speech that new quality productivity leads innovation, characterized by high technology, efficiency, and quality, embodying the advanced productivity qualities in line with the new development philosophy. It signifies innovation and high-quality development in a new direction, with "new" representing its extension and "quality" representing its essence.
The key to nurturing and enhancing new quality productivity lies in promoting innovation and enhancing quality through intelligence. Promoting innovation involves accelerating the cultivation and development of strategic emerging industries driven by technological innovation. Particularly, the development of new IT technologies such as the Internet of Things, edge computing, cloud computing, 5G, and artificial intelligence is crucial in elevating productivity to higher levels. Enhancing quality through intelligence entails leveraging innovative technologies to empower traditional industries, especially manufacturing, in improving quality, efficiency, and transformation. Accelerating the deep integration of new IT with Chinese manufacturing, exploring new scenarios and applications of "AI+", and promoting the intelligent and green transformation of Chinese manufacturing through "digital-physical integration" will generate new efficiency dividends, innovation dividends, and low-carbon dividends, propelling Chinese manufacturing towards the high end of the global industrial chain, value chain, and innovation chain.
Artificial intelligence has become a vital engine for developing new quality productivity. "We believe that current large public models have limitations in energy consumption, privacy protection, and other aspects. To further popularize artificial intelligence, the future trend in the industry will be the coexistence and sharing of large public models, enterprise models, and personal models. The development of enterprise intelligence entities and personal intelligence entities based on enterprise and personal large models represents the next step in AI model development. In the future, personal and enterprise large models will coexist and complement large public models through the integration of personal intelligence entities and enterprise intelligence entities, forming hybrid artificial intelligence. We believe this is the direction for the future popularization and application of AI," Yang Yuanqing stated. The practical application of hybrid artificial intelligence relies on the widespread adoption of new IT infrastructure based on the "edge-edge-cloud-network-intelligence" technology architecture and its integration with various industries. "In the era of digital economy and intelligent economy, if data is considered as production materials, then new IT serves as the enabler of new quality productivity," Yang Yuanqing emphasized.
For enterprises, nurturing and enhancing new quality productivity not only pose higher development requirements but also offer unprecedented development opportunities.
Lenovo Group is an active practitioner in cultivating and developing new quality productivity. In recent years, Lenovo has been increasing its investment in artificial intelligence technology innovation and accelerating the deployment of AI technology and applications globally.
Furthermore, Lenovo is expediting its business layout for hybrid artificial intelligence, intensifying its research and development investment and business layout in intelligent terminals, intelligent infrastructure, and industry intelligent solutions that support hybrid artificial intelligence. At the 2024 Lenovo Innovation Technology Conference held in April this year, Lenovo took the lead in the Chinese market by launching truly meaningful AI-powered computers, AI PCs, as well as innovative products and applications such as personal and enterprise intelligence entities, heterogeneous intelligent computing platforms, among others. Compared to today's personal computers, AI PCs possess five core features: built-in personal large models with intelligent entities for natural user interaction, personal knowledge base, local heterogeneous AI computing power (CPU/GPU/NPU), open connectivity to artificial intelligence applications, and personal data and privacy protection.
In addition to laying out new IT infrastructure based on hybrid artificial intelligence, Lenovo is accelerating the deep integration of artificial intelligence with various industries, particularly driving the transformation of intelligent manufacturing. Currently, Lenovo has provided "new IT" intelligent transformation solutions for nearly a thousand large industry enterprises, including Sany Heavy Industry, Geely Auto, NIO, CATL, and others.
