Lenovo AI Express with Nvidia Accelerates Path to Hybrid AI Factory in Weeks

Lenovo announced Lenovo AI Express, a new accelerated path to production AI that removes deployment complexities by giving customers of all sizes quicker return on their AI investment.According to Lenovo’s 2026 CIO Playbook, organizations moving from AI experimentation to scaled execution are expecting an average $2.79 return for every $1 invested, with 93% of enterprise respondents anticipating positive returns. Yet long lead times, integration complexity, and other readiness barriers can slow the path to realizing that value. In collaboration with Nvidia, Lenovo AI Express addresses these barriers, combining rapid access to AI capacity with validated, right-sized configurations and services that simplify procurement, deployment and operations. Customers can start with a solution sized for today’s workloads and budgets, then scale as agents, models, users, data and inference demands grow – with order-to-ship accelerating to 15 business days for eligible configurations.

“Organizations have moved beyond whether AI can create value. The priority now is navigating today’s complexity and constraints to get AI into production faster, with an approach that fits their needs today and can scale as those needs evolve,” said Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, president, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Lenovo. “Customers don” need to overbuild or spend months evaluating another architecture. Lenovo AI Express gives them an accelerated path to the Lenovo Hybrid AI Factory and extends Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage, our full-stack approach and services to help organizations put AI to work across their business.”

Start Faster, Scale with Confidence
Lenovo AI Express is a fast on-ramp to the Lenovo Hybrid AI Factory with Nvidia, helping customers achieve more predictable deployment and access to production capacity, backed by Lenovo’s highly-ranked secure supply chain. They can choose from three validated quick-start configurations based on their model, user and throughput requirements matched to each level of AI demand:

• Small – Accelerating to 15 Days: Supports focused AI inferencing for model sizes from 7B – 70B, and tens of users at 30+TPS, built on Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650a V4 and powered by two Nvidia RTX 6000 PRO Blackwell Server Edition GPUs
• Medium – Accelerating to 20 Days: Supports higher-throughput inferencing and agentic AI for model sizes from 70B – 400B and hundreds of users at 30+ TPS, built on Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 and powered by eight  Nvidia RTX 6000 PRO Blackwell Server Edition GPUs 
• Large – Accelerating to 25 Days: Supports full-scale generative AI models with up to a trillion parameters and enterprise-scale deployments, serving thousands of users across a wide range of workloads and interactivity levels, built on Lenovo ThinkSystem SR680a V4 and powered by Nvidia HGX B300

Across configurations, Lenovo AI Express also supports the latest CPU technologies from AMD and Intel, giving customers a choice of validated technologies to meet their AI workload requirements. Customers can extend their chosen configuration with enterprise AI software based on their requirements, including Red Hat AI Factory with Nvidia or Nvidia AI Enterprise software. For additional AI data resilience, customers can include Veeam Kasten to protect AI applications, data, models and pipelines.

“As AI agents reshape every industry, enterprises need purpose-built infrastructure that can efficiently turn their data into intelligence,” said Chris Marriott, VP, enterprise platforms, Nvidia. “Lenovo AI Express combines Lenovo’s validated systems with Nvidia accelerated computing, networking and AI software into ready-to-ship solutions, giving organizations a faster path to deploy AI factories and scale as their workloads and demand for intelligence grow.”

Deploy and Operate with Confidence
Lenovo AI Express extends beyond rapid access to capacity with a full range of services that accelerate deployment and simplify the AI factory lifecycle, from identifying uses cases and validating ROI through proofs of concepts to optimizing GPU environments for performance, utilization and cost efficiency. New Premier Support Plus for Servers add proactive and predictive support capabilities designed to identify issues earlier and help maintain operational continuity for mission-critical environments. Together, these capabilities provide everything customers need to move AI use cases into production using their own data.

Scale with Lenovo and Partner Ecosystem
Lenovo is also expanding access to Lenovo AI Express through its global partner ecosystem, giving channel partners a simpler, faster and more predictable way to identify and pursue customer AI opportunities. Through the Lenovo 360 framework, partners can bring validated Lenovo Hybrid AI Factory configurations and capabilities to customers with support throughout the sales process.  Availability, eligibility and ordering processes vary by region, with additional guidance provided locally.