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This article summarizes the announcements Lenovo made at NVIDIA GTC 2026 with links to supporting materials for more information.
Lenovo’s NVIDIA-accelerated AI servers and hybrid AI platforms
Lenovo's NVIDIA-accelerated AI servers and hybrid AI platforms are redefining enterprise AI economics and now delivering ROI in less than six months and up to 8x lower cost per token compared to comparable cloud IaaS, helping enterprises bring AI workloads on-premises with greater efficiency and control.
To learn more about the benefits of on-prem and hybrid AI implementations, see the Lenovo paper, On-Premise vs Cloud: Generative AI Total Cost of Ownership (2026 Edition).
The expanded portfolio features pre-validated system designs integrated with NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, including:
- Two Lenovo Hybrid AI agentic inferencing & tunning platform optimizations:
- With NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPUs for scale-out AI and multi-modal inferencing. For details, see the Lenovo Hybrid AI 285 Platform Guide
- With NVIDIA B300 - among the first NVIDIA design review board-certified systems for enterprise AI training. For details, see the Lenovo Hybrid AI 289 Platform Guide
- Lenovo Hybrid AI inferencing starter platform with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell, delivering up to 3X performance gains for video and data processing and 4X better performance for content generation compared to NVIDIA L4 for single-node deployments. For details, see the Lenovo Hybrid AI 221 Platform Guide
- Lenovo ThinkAgile HX650a with Nutanix Enterprise AI and Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, providing a validated foundation for protected inferencing and agentic workloads. For details, see the Lenovo Solution Brief, ThinkAgile HX Solution for AI with Nutanix Enterprise AI.
- Lenovo Hybrid AI platforms with Cloudian deliver scalable, sovereign data pipelines, while Veeam Kasten provides Kubernetes-native protection to safeguard AI models and services. For details, see the Lenovo Validated Design: On-Prem High Performance AI Data Platform.
- Enterprises are scaling generative AI and RAG into production — and protecting models, vector databases, and Kubernetes state is now mission-critical. Downtime can exceed $300K per hour. Data breaches average $4.88M. Retraining large AI models can cost millions more. The Lenovo Validated Design for Lenovo Hybrid AI Platform with Veeam Kasten provides a validated blueprint to reduce that exposure.
Lenovo NVIDIA GB300 NVL72
The Lenovo NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 is a rack scale solution leading the new era of AI with optimized compute and increased memory. Based on the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 platform, the Lenovo NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 server combines the high-performance NVIDIA B300 GPUs, NVIDIA Grace processors, and a hybrid cooling solution, which results in extreme HPC/AI performance in dense packaging.
For more information on this new rack-scale offering see the following:
Read more about an implementation of the Lenovo offering in the Storyhub press release, Lenovo Teams with NVIDIA on Gigawatt AI Factories Program to Accelerate Enterprise AI.
Lenovo Inferencing Servers
As introduced at CES in January, Lenovo announced new inferencing-optimized ThinkSystem and ThinkEdge servers, combined with enhanced Hybrid AI platforms and integrated partner solutions, enable real-time AI Inferencing across retail, manufacturing, healthcare, sports, and smart city environments.
- ThinkSystem SR650i V4
- ThinkSystem SR675i V3
- ThinkEdge SE455i V3
Read the datasheets and product guides:
- SR650i V4: Datasheet and Product Guide
- SR675i V3: Datasheet and Product Guide
- SE455i V3: Datasheet and Product Guide
Learn more about these offerings with the following materials:
- Lenovo Storyhub press release: Lenovo Revolutionizes Real-Time Enterprise AI with New Inferencing Servers
- Thought leadership paper by Futurum: AI Inference: Enterprise Infrastructure and Strategic Imperatives and Infographic
- Lenovo Storyhub article: The Agentic AI Era: Why Hybrid AI Advantage with NVIDIA Will Define Enterprise Leadership
- AI Innovators Solution Brief: Smart cities AI for public safety with Vaidio
- AI Innovators Solution Brief: Spatial intelligence for Retail with AiFi
- AI Innovators Solution Brief: Adaptive loss prevention from RocketBoots
- Inferencing Infographic: AI Inferencing at Scale - Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage with NVIDIA
- Hybrid AI Infographic: Build Your Enterprise AI Factory Faster - Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage with NVIDIA
IBM Technology Lifecycle Services
These solutions are backed by an expanded global collaboration with IBM Technology Lifecycle Services to accelerate hybrid AI adoption worldwide.
IBM Technology Lifecycle Services complements the Lenovo Hybrid AI foundation with end-to-end delivery and managed services—from Day 0 design and deployment through ongoing operations and lifecycle optimization. Together, Lenovo and IBM bring joint validation, proven blueprints, and real-world operational experience to customers worldwide.
The result is a pragmatic path to production grade hybrid AI—where infrastructure is treated as a strategic asset, operations are designed for scale, and enterprises can move from AI ambition to sustained business impact. Because in enterprise AI, infrastructure isn’t an afterthought. It’s what makes everything else possible.
Read more in the article by Lenovo's Robert Daigle and IBM's Omkar Nimbalkar, Inference Economics Are Here: Why Enterprise AI Lives or Dies on Infrastructure.
Explore the Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage with NVIDIA
Discover how Lenovo and NVIDIA are helping enterprises build secure, scalable, and cost-efficient AI factories -bringing generative AI, RAG, and real-time inferencing into production with confidence.
Learn more about the Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage and explore the full portfolio of NVIDIA-accelerated solutions and services:
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/servers-storage/solutions/ai/
Author
Maria Belén Rotelli is the ISG Worldwide Enterprise AI and Sports Solutions Marketing Manager at Lenovo. She specializes in executive messaging and enterprise AI positioning across the company’s AI infrastructure and Hybrid AI portfolio, including its application within the sports vertical. She brings more than 15 years of experience at Lenovo, IBM and Microsoft, with deep expertise in corporate communications, global campaign leadership and enterprise technology marketing within large-scale organizations.
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