New Quick-Start Program Speeds Order-to-Ship to 15 Days for Validated, Right-Sized AI Factory Configurations, Helping Customers Move from AI Strategy to Operations Faster
Lenovo today announced Lenovo AI Express, a new accelerated pathway to production-ready AI designed to eliminate deployment complexities and help organizations of all sizes achieve faster returns on their AI investments.
According to Lenovo’s 2026 CIO Playbook, organizations transitioning from AI experimentation to large-scale implementation expect an average return of $2.79 for every $1 invested, while 93% of enterprise respondents anticipate positive returns. However, lengthy lead times, integration challenges, and other readiness barriers can delay the realization of these benefits.
Developed in collaboration with NVIDIA, Lenovo AI Express addresses these challenges by combining faster access to AI infrastructure with validated, appropriately sized configurations and services that simplify procurement, deployment, and operations. Customers can begin with a solution tailored to their current workloads and budgets, then scale as their AI agents, models, users, data, and inference requirements expand. For eligible configurations, order-to-ship times can be reduced to as little as 15 business days.¹
“Organizations are navigating today’s complexity and constraints to get AI into production faster, looking for an approach that fits their current needs while giving them the ability to scale as those needs evolve,” said Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, President of Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group. “Lenovo AI Express gives our customers an accelerated path to deploying AI infrastructure to fit their specifications while mitigating the risk of overbuilding or costly delays.”
Start Faster, Scale with Confidence
Lenovo AI Express provides a streamlined route to the Lenovo Hybrid AI Factory with NVIDIA, helping organizations achieve more predictable deployments and gain access to production-ready AI capacity, supported by Lenovo’s highly ranked secure supply chain.
Customers can select from three validated quick-start configurations based on their model sizes, user requirements, and throughput needs, with each option designed to accommodate different levels of AI demand:
- Small – From 15 Days¹: Designed for focused AI inference workloads serving tens of users at 30+ tokens per second (TPS).² Supporting average model sizes ranging from 7 billion to 70 billion parameters, this configuration is built on the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650a V4 and powered by two NVIDIA RTX 6000 PRO Blackwell Server Edition GPUs.
- Medium – From 20 Days¹: Designed for higher-throughput inference and agentic AI applications serving hundreds of users at 30+ TPS.² Supporting average model sizes from 70 billion to 400 billion parameters, this configuration features the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3, equipped with eight NVIDIA RTX 6000 PRO Blackwell Server Edition GPUs.
- Large – From 25 Days¹: Designed for enterprise-scale generative AI deployments serving thousands of users² across diverse workloads and interaction requirements. Supporting models with up to one trillion parameters, this configuration is built on the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR680a V4 and powered by NVIDIA HGX B300.
Across all configurations, Lenovo AI Express supports the latest CPU technologies from AMD and Intel, giving customers flexibility to select validated technologies that align with their AI workload requirements.
Organizations can further customize their chosen configurations with enterprise AI software suited to their needs, including Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA or NVIDIA AI Enterprise. To strengthen AI data resilience, customers can also integrate 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, vice president of enterprise platforms at 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
Beyond providing faster access to AI infrastructure, Lenovo AI Express offers a comprehensive portfolio of services designed to accelerate deployment and simplify the AI factory lifecycle.
These services support customers throughout their AI journey, from identifying potential use cases and validating return on investment through proofs of concept to optimizing GPU environments for performance, utilization, and cost efficiency.
The offering also introduces Premier Support Plus for Servers, which adds proactive and predictive support capabilities to identify potential issues earlier and help maintain operational continuity in mission-critical environments.
Together, these capabilities give organizations the infrastructure, software, and support needed to bring AI use cases into production using their own data.
Scale with Lenovo and Its Partner Ecosystem
Lenovo is expanding the reach of Lenovo AI Express through its global partner ecosystem, providing channel partners with a simpler, faster, and more predictable way to identify and pursue AI opportunities.
Through the Lenovo 360 framework, partners can deliver validated Lenovo Hybrid AI Factory configurations and capabilities to customers, with support available throughout the sales process.
Availability, eligibility, and ordering procedures vary by region, with additional guidance provided by local Lenovo teams.
