{"id":61538,"date":"2024-02-19T14:03:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T06:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=61538"},"modified":"2024-02-19T14:03:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T06:03:16","slug":"lenovo-anaconda-announce-agreement-to-accelerate-ai-development-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2024\/02\/19\/lenovo-anaconda-announce-agreement-to-accelerate-ai-development-deployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo, Anaconda announce agreement to accelerate AI development, deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lenovo\u00a0announced an agreement with Anaconda\u00a0Inc., the leading provider of the world\u2019s most popular\u00a0\u00a0artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and data science platform, to empower Lenovo\u2019s high performance data science workstations. The partnership will couple Lenovo\u2019s trusted ThinkStation\u00a0and ThinkPad\u00a0workstation product portfolio heritage and leadership with Anaconda\u2019s enterprise strengths for open-source leadership, security, and reliability.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;The rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, deep learning and generative AI is opening up new opportunities for businesses and data scientists. Much of the AI innovation taking place today is driven by open-source software and cloud-based solutions, with Python being a leading software language for AI applications. However, the data security risks associated with utilizing open-source software at an enterprise level, privacy concerns and often prohibitive cost of cloud-based AI solutions, are causing many organizations to rethink their approach to investment in AI development. With Intel<em>\u00ae<\/em>-powered Lenovo workstations architected with the latest generations of professional NVIDIA<em>\u00ae<\/em>&nbsp;GPUs built for large-language model fine-tuning, and the Anaconda Navigator\u2019s ability to enable businesses to leverage open-source and AI with enhanced security, scale, and governance mechanisms in place, the partnership allows data scientists&nbsp;to&nbsp;create and deploy AI solutions with first class hardware and enterprise-grade AI software support within a more manageable investment framework.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_26982\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.lenovo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Anaconda-Navigator.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.lenovo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Anaconda-Navigator-e1707926110454-1024x551.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26982\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Anaconda Navigator<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Optimized for Intel platforms, Lenovo\u2019s new generation of data science workstations deliver remarkable AI performance and is one of the world\u2019s most powerful and scalable AI workstation portfolios. Planning for AI projects requires clear and thoughtful pathways to allocate the right hardware, software and skillsets to manage each stage of AI development. Lenovo workstations complement cloud-based AI solutions by acting as a bridge between local and cloud resources and aid data scientist flexibility and productivity. Lenovo\u2019s full workstation portfolio includes highly configurable systems designed for nearly every AI workflow, industry or vertical, size and price point \u2013 all architected to drive the future of AI forward in an agile and cost-efficient way. From single CPU and GPU mobile workstations that are ideal for data input, collection and preparation, to the most powerful dual CPU and four GPU configurations for advanced AI workflows, Lenovo workstations with Anaconda Navigator offer protected \u201csandbox\u201d environments to tackle the most complex AI solution development and deployment.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u201cWith Lenovo\u2019s trusted workstation leadership and Anaconda\u2019s trusted leadership in open-source software support and reliability, the partnership is a perfect match,\u201d said Rob Herman, Vice President and General Manager, Workstation and Client AI Group at Lenovo. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to activate this partnership to aid data scientists in pushing forward the capabilities of AI with our premium workstations portfolio and Anaconda\u2019s stellar open-source packages and repositories.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Anaconda Navigator is available for download to use on current and future generation Lenovo Workstations.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u201cAs artificial intelligence and machine learning models grow increasingly complex, high-performance workstations are imperative to empower data scientists with advanced capabilities,\u201d said Chandler Vaughn, Chief Product Officer at Anaconda. \u201cLenovo\u2019s leadership in supplying optimized workstations, featuring robust GPUs, memory, and storage, positions them as an ideal collaborator for Anaconda and our Navigator desktop product. By jointly providing resilient hardware and trusted software tools, Lenovo and Anaconda present data scientists, AI developers, and AI engineers an unrivaled platform to freely explore emerging techniques in AI\/ML. This symbiotic relationship enables organizations to push boundaries and accelerate innovations in artificial intelligence without technological constraints.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The partnership will couple Lenovo\u2019s trusted ThinkStation\u00a0and ThinkPad\u00a0workstation product portfolio heritage and leadership with Anaconda\u2019s enterprise strengths for open-source leadership, security, and reliability.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":61539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,25],"tags":[312,96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-61538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-software","tag-lenovo","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}