Art Hu says Lenovo sells more than four devices every second.
“We're we're selling, right, um, more than four devices a second, right? We have AI services and solutions, and so when we think about the product development”
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Art Hu says Gartner ranks Lenovo's supply chain among the top supply chains in the world.
“HR and our supply chain is one of the top supply chains in the world, according to Gartner.”
Lenovo has built an AI coach for its enterprise sellers to improve how they sell.
“we actually have an enterprise seller AI coach who can improve their selling motion”
Art Hu says Lenovo has built hundreds of approved AI agents and environments for functions such as legal, marketing, finance and HR.
“We have built hundreds of agents, we have hundreds of environments, all of all approved in case my security team listens to this at some point”
Art Hu says the command prompt was the primary way of interacting with computers for decades at the start of the modern computer age.
“From the dawn of the modern computer age, we had decades where the command prompt was the primary way of interacting.”
Art Hu says the graphical user interface has been the dominant way of using computers for roughly four or five decades.
“Then we had the graphical user interface, the GUI, and that was that's been going for probably four or five decades.”
Art Hu says a leading language model in deep research mode can work for thirty to ninety minutes on a fifty-page master's level thesis and return a partly complete draft.
“If we go have one of the leading language models go into deep research mode and say, Hey, I would like a master's level thesis that is fifty pages”
Art Hu says writing code is only about ten to 15% of a software developer's time.
“but as a developer, that is maybe ten to 15% of your time, right? There's thinking about design, there's testing, there's regression”
Art Hu says the best unassisted human chess player has had no chance against the best chess engine for decades.
“the best human player in chess, who is unassisted, uh, there's no chance for that person to beat the best chess engine”
Art Hu says Lenovo sometimes calls human workers carbon-based labor, as opposed to silicon-based labor.
“in Lenovo, we sometimes call it carbon-based labor, right, as opposed to silicon-based labor.”
Art Hu says generative AI built on transformer architecture will hallucinate.
“the current architecture and class of technology that powers generative AI around transformers, uh, will hallucinate.”
Art Hu says generative AI for tasks like marketing and press releases is vastly better and faster than previous methods, which makes occasional errors tolerable.
“it's already a hundred x better and a hundred x faster than what it was before”
Art Hu says power density in new data centers is rising by an order of magnitude because of GPU-dense compute.
“if we look at how data centers are being built, the power density is going up by an order of magnitude in terms of”
Art Hu says Lenovo's infrastructure group provides compute that powers the internet and works with public cloud providers and enterprise private clouds.
“our infrastructure group provides basically the compute that powers the internet”
Art Hu gives, as an example of a services pitch, an AI solution that helps a legal team manage multibillion dollar litigation with more accuracy and less staffing.
“I've got a solution that will help your legal team manage your multibillion dollar litigation with much more accuracy and with much less staffing”
Art Hu compares AI to steam power and electricity, which each took decades to spread, to argue AI will be around for a long time.
“Think about steam power took decades, right? Electricity took many decades to really reach.”
Lenovo's AInomics report, released in 2025, examines how enterprises are thinking about agentic and generative AI.
“AI nomics is a research report that we did and we released earlier this year that talks about how are enterprises thinking about agentic around generative AI in 2025.”
Lenovo's AInomics report highlighted return on investment, workforce skills and readiness, and data as key findings.
“So, ROI, skills and readiness, and it's all about the data were some of the key findings that we highlighted.”
Art Hu says a vendor's ethics can be built into the procurement scorecard as a weighted criterion, or as a knockout criterion.
“if you think about a procurement and a vendor evaluation scorecard, that gets a line, that gets a weight”
Art Hu says a demo that looks 80% done is often only about 10% done, which is why customers' expectations run ahead of reality.
“but we all know the 80% looking done demo is really 10% done”
Art Hu predicts that the upcoming decade will be centered on hybrid AI.
“The upcoming decade will be very much around hybrid AI, uh, and in all its incarnations.”