At CES 2026, Lenovo unveiled Lenovo Qira, a built-in, cross-device intelligence designed to change how people interact with their devices, applications, and digital services. The same intelligence will also launch as Motorola Qira on supported Motorola devices, delivering one consistent personal AI across brands and form factors.

Unlike traditional assistants, Lenovo Qira is positioned as ambient, system-level intelligence. It is always present, context-aware, and designed to work naturally in the background without requiring users to open or switch to a separate app.

“Lenovo Qira is not another assistant. It’s a new way intelligence shows up across your devices,” said Dan Dery, Vice President of AI Ecosystem in Lenovo’s Intelligent Devices Group. “Our goal is to make AI feel less like a tool you use and more like an intelligence that works with you, continuously and naturally.”

One Intelligence Across Devices

Lenovo Qira is embedded at the operating system level and moves with users across PCs, tablets, smartphones, wearables, and other devices. It maintains continuity as users shift screens, tasks, and environments, learning intent over time and anticipating needs with user permission.

The system is built on three core capabilities:

• Presence – Qira is integrated directly into the system with consistent entry points across devices. It can proactively offer suggestions, respond instantly when invoked, or remain quietly in the background. Users can activate it by saying “Hey, Qira,” pressing a dedicated key, or tapping a persistent on-screen pill.

• Actions – Qira can take action on a user’s behalf, orchestrating tasks across apps and devices. Using local and on-device AI, including offline processing, it reduces the need for users to manage every step manually.

• Perception – Qira builds a fused knowledge base that combines user-approved documents, memories, and interactions across devices. With privacy and consent at its core, it develops an evolving understanding of context, continuity, and personal patterns.

Designed for Real-World Moments

Lenovo Qira introduces a set of experiences built around everyday workflows:

• Next Move offers proactive, contextual suggestions based on what the user is doing, helping them move forward without extra steps.

• Write For Me assists directly within emails, documents, messages, and notes, adapting to tone and intent without forcing users to switch apps.

• Live Interaction enables real-time, multimodal collaboration while sharing a screen or camera.

• Catch Me Up summarizes what happened while a user was away and highlights what matters most.

• Pay Attention provides real-time transcription, translation, summaries, and recall for meetings and conversations.

For deeper creative work, focused experiences like Creator Zone allow users to create and edit visuals with fewer distractions.

Privacy-First by Design

Lenovo said Qira is built with privacy as a foundation. Its hybrid AI architecture prioritizes on-device processing to keep personal data local, while secure cloud services extend capabilities when needed. Users remain in control of what data is used and how intelligence is applied.

An Open AI Ecosystem

Lenovo Qira is supported by a growing ecosystem of partners:

• Microsoft provides local-to-cloud AI capabilities through Windows Foundry and Microsoft Azure.

• Stability AI powers private, on-device text-to-image creation in Creator Zone using Stable Diffusion models.

• Notion enables secure access to users’ notes and documents for contextual reasoning.

• Perplexity adds well-sourced answers and guided follow-ups.

• Expedia Group brands Expedia and Vrbo support travel discovery and booking based on user intent.

Availability

The experience will appear as Lenovo Qira on Lenovo devices and Motorola Qira on Motorola devices, delivering a single personal AI across products. Lenovo said rollout will begin on select Lenovo devices in Q1 2026, followed by supported Motorola smartphones, with over-the-air upgrades planned for existing Lenovo AI Now users and broader expansion over time.

With Qira, Lenovo is positioning ambient, cross-device intelligence as the next phase of personal computing — one that adapts continuously to users rather than asking users to adapt to their technology.

Source: Lenovo