Lenovo Unveils Qira Ambient Intelligence Agent at CES 2026

Lenovo officially introduced its proprietary artificial intelligence tool, Qira, on Tuesday, January 6, 2026, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. This launch signals a strategic shift for the multinational technology company toward a unified Personal Ambient Intelligence System designed for deep integration across its hardware ecosystem, encompassing both Lenovo and Motorola devices. The core objective of Qira is to process data contextually across connected platforms to understand user intent, effectively bridging the Windows and Android operating systems without requiring manual context switching.

During the presentation at the Sphere in Las Vegas, executives demonstrated Qira's capability to execute complex, multi-step tasks beyond simple content generation. Specific examples included summarizing WhatsApp messages, organizing digital photographs, capturing and summarizing ambient meeting conversations, and drafting and dispatching emails based solely on voice commands. Luca Rossi, President of Lenovo's Intelligent Devices Group, stated that the introduction of Qira ushers in a new era of personal AI built on user trust and control.

Qira is designed as a system-level AI layer utilizing a hybrid architecture that prioritizes on-device processing for privacy and low latency, reserving secure cloud execution for more demanding, global tasks. This approach aligns with the industry trend toward AI-native devices that operate locally and maintain intelligence across form factors. Lenovo Chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang framed this development within the company's 'Smarter AI for All' vision, asserting that AI is advancing to perceive the three-dimensional world and interact with reality to elevate human potential.

To support this ambition, Lenovo partnered with NVIDIA to launch the 'Artificial Intelligence Cloud Super Factory,' integrating NVIDIA's Rubin platform with Lenovo's Shenlong liquid cooling technology, capable of scaling up to 100,000 GPU units for trillion-parameter large models. The cross-device continuity offered by Qira directly positions Lenovo to compete with established continuity frameworks from other major technology companies operating within proprietary operating systems. Qira fuses existing intelligence capabilities, such as Moto AI and Lenovo AI Now, into a single, continuous intelligence that follows the user.

Motorola previewed Project Maxwell, an AI pin powered by Motorola Qira, which uses a camera for visual context and executes end-to-end tasks via voice, allowing users to review the reasoning steps for actions like sending messages. Lenovo's strategy is rooted in 'Hybrid AI,' which combines personal, enterprise, and public intelligence models. Dr. Tolga Kurtoglu, the company's CTO, emphasized that Qira relies on intelligent model orchestration to match the best model for real-time needs, ensuring security and reducing computational costs while focusing on agentic workflows.

Lenovo confirmed that Qira will begin rolling out on select Lenovo and Motorola products throughout 2026, extending its unified intelligence across PCs, smartphones, tablets, and wearables. This comprehensive ecosystem approach, supported by partnerships with chipmakers like Qualcomm for on-device processing in Motorola devices, signals a commitment to making AI a pervasive differentiator for personal computing.