CES 2026: Lenovo’s Tech World Shares Vision Of Smarter AI For All

Lenovo hosted its annual Tech World event at Sphere, where the company focused on the theme of “Smarter AI for All” and showcased immersive content created by Sphere Studios, marking the second year that the cutting-edge venue was used to host a CES keynote.

Tech World showcases Lenovo’s portfolio of AI solutions and included a veritable “Who’s Who” of guests from the tech world, including Jensen Huang, founder & CEO, NVIDIA; Angelina Gomez, Motorola’s head of software product marketing; Lip-Bu Tan, Intel’s CEO; Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s EVP, consumer chief marketing officer; Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm’s president & CEO; Dr. Lisa Su, AMD’s Chair & CEO; Jennifer Koester, Sphere’s president and COO; and Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA.

Lenovo chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang was center stage for most of the evening, and while many new products were announced, the big reveal was Lenovo’s new personal AI platform called “Qira,” which looks to deliver a unified experience across multiple devices and platforms in real time.

The two-hour event was filled with discussions of how computing technology has changed and evolved, and how AI will continue to develop and grow. AI is a force of innovation driving the technology that connects us. Yang said, “AI is no longer just generating answers; it is evolving and getting new capabilities and is everywhere,” and that AI has the opportunity to elevate and maximize human potential.

NVIDIA’s Huang, fresh off his own CES 2026 keynote, commented that the industry has evolved from traditional computers to cloud computing to AI. The technology is moving incredibly fast, and NVIDIA’s latest GPU chipset, Rubin, is 10 times more powerful than the last, and the amount of computing power needed to keep up is growing exponentially. Lenovo announced a partnership with NVIDIA to develop an AI Cloud Gigafactory to accelerate Enterprise AI, which is the next big leap in the companies’ three decades of partnership.

Yang stated that AI models are never a one-size-fits-all proposition, and personal AI needs to be built around individuals. One challenge is aggregating and searching all the photos, files, and memories people have scattered across multiple devices and platforms, which is one thing Qira is designed to bridge. The company predicts that AI will make up 80% of the PC market within three years, and that Qira will run on 1 billion devices.

Lenovo and Qualcomm see wearables as a category that represents billions of potential devices, and that will merge the digital and physical world. Qualcomm’s Amon predicts the tech industry will merge with the fashion industry, resulting in huge growth opportunities in categories like smart glasses, necklaces, pendants, etc. Qira will be able to use wearable devices like glasses or a new AI perceptive companion product called “Maxwell” to see what you see and hear what you hear, which will capture your day, developing a cognitive human-machine interface. Yang stated that Qira “grows more like you, eventually becoming your personal AI twin.”

On the hardware front, Intel’s Tan came out to help launch the next generation of Lenovo’s Aura Edition PCs, imagined with Intel Core Ultra processors that will all soon be embedded with Qira, which they called a great milestone in their three-decade-long journey together. Motorola will launch the new RAZR Fold Phone, which will feature a best-in-class camera and will also be enhanced with Qira features.

Lenovo is a Sphere technology partner, and Koester said the company’s mission is to bring wonder to the world. Sphere developed its proprietary Big Sky ultra-high-resolution camera system to capture the images displayed in Sphere, and the camera’s 18K sensor captures 30 GB of raw data each second. Lenovo workstations help move that data from capture to final render, where it is shown at 18K x 18K resolution at 60 frames-per-second.

FIFA’s President Infantino claimed that six billion people around the world will tune in to watch the World Cup at home, and Football AI, powered by Lenovo, will provide new experiences for fans, giving them more access to knowledge, data and analytics. Additionally, a next-gen referee view will deliver a better on-pitch experience, and AI-enabled 3D renders of player avatars will create “digital twins” to allow better player tracking. Infantino assured that this is an innovation “that benefits every player, every team, and every fan.”

The evening concluded with a one-hour concert featuring Gwen Stefani that showcased Sphere’s incredible audio and video capabilities.

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