Lenovo’s Qira earned the PCMag award for Best AI at CES for its bold vision to connect your context between your phone and PC.
As PCMag reports, unlike siloed AI tools of the past, Qira (pronounced “keer-ah”) is a “personal ambient intelligence” that works seamlessly across devices. It’s a system-level AI assistant – Lenovo’s answer to Apple Intelligence – that’s designed to bridge the gap between different personal devices and across the Windows and Android ecosystems. It’s a big move for Lenovo, but one that’s a uniquely appropriate fit for the company, which not only makes Lenovo laptops and tablets but also owns the Motorola brand of smartphones.
Qira leverages Lenovo’s existing ecosystem, fusing the capabilities of Moto AI, Lenovo AI Now, and the Lenovo Creator Zone into a single, continuous intelligence that follows you across your various devices. It’s a level of cross-device functionality that’s presently only provided by a handful of companies, such as Apple, Google, and Samsung, each of which has its own respective operating systems with original hardware that supports it.
A Bold Vision
It’s a bold vision, and one that only a handful of companies have tried to pursue to date, notably Apple, Google, and Samsung. Can Lenovo do it better? What other device form factors might Lenovo have in store that would be compatible with Qira?
“Lenovo is the company with exposure to phones, tablets, PCs, and wearables, and we identified an opportunity: that you will want your personal AI twin to have all the context of what you do, no matter which platform you are on,” says Luca Rossi, president of Lenovo’s Intelligent Devices Group in an interview with PCMag. “It could be on Android with a phone or tablet, or on Windows with a PC. But it can also be with your wearables, and all the data that your wearables capture.”
Rossi continues, “Qira is our AI super agent that will serve as an orchestration layer. It will collect all this information, so we’ll know everything about you, and we’ll share this across all the platforms. That is the vision that we are implementing with Lenovo and with Motorola.”
The Promise of Continuity Without Boundaries
Qira’s defining feature is its ability to maintain real-time context as you switch between devices. If you’re researching a project on your Motorola Razr while commuting, Qira recognizes the content on the screen. When you later open your Lenovo Yoga laptop, for example, Qira proactively surfaces the “Next Move”—a feature that provides the exact documents and creative tools needed to continue the workflow without first manually transferring files.
The goal is to have the AI anticipate what you’re doing, regardless of which device you’re using, and provide a hyper-personalized experience that understands text, voice, and images, keeping your relevant files and apps at the ready to continue work, research, or offloaded tasks between devices.
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