As PC vendors continue to launch multiple variations of AI PCs, the promises of Microsoft Copilot and Copilot+ PC have demonstrated little relevance to enterprises, who are yet to see enough use cases to justify the purchase. However, Lenovo is trying to change that with its own AI assistant, AI Now.
Based on Meta’s Llama 3.0, Lenovo AI Now is a small language model that focuses on a limited number of tasks such as document organization and device management, but does it locally, so users don’t have to worry about exposing their data to the outside world, and tasks such as document summaries can be done even on an airplane, without an internet connection.
The inspiration for AI Now comes from Copilot’s limited success as a PC assistant. “I think at the launch of Copilot in June last year, there was a promise of more, and they had to pull back. I think it’s going to take some time for us to see wide-scale deployment, especially for some of the features like Recall, which they [Microsoft] showed and then came back off of,” said Tom Butler, VP for worldwide commercial portfolio and product management at Lenovo.
