One AI for everything: Lenovo and Motorola unite PCs and smartphones via Qira at #CES2026

At CES 2026, Lenovo unveiled personal adaptive intelligence designed to change the way users interact with devices, apps, and digital services. The solution is being launched as Lenovo Qira on Lenovo devices and Motorola Qira on Motorola devices.

“Lenovo Qira is not just another assistant, but a new approach to bringing intelligence to all your devices,” said Dan Dery, vice president of the AI ecosystem at Lenovo’s Intelligent Devices Group. According to him, the goal is to create intelligence that works together with the user continuously and naturally, not as a separate tool.

Qira reflects the shift from AI within individual applications to ambient system-level intelligence. This approach allows intelligence to be context-aware and available across devices without the need to constantly launch or switch applications. It works in the background, supports the user at the right time with their consent, gradually learns habits, intentions, and adapts behavior to individual scenarios.

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One intelligence for all your devices

Lenovo Qira follows the user across Lenovo and Motorola devices, working at the system level. It moves between PCs, tablets, smartphones, and accessories to provide a seamless experience as you change screens, tasks, or contexts. The system is built on three key attributes that distinguish it from traditional chatbots:

• Presence. Lenovo Qira is integrated at the system level and provides a consistent experience across all devices. It can proactively suggest options for action, respond instantly to a request, or stay in the background to adapt to the user’s interaction style. Qira can be activated with the voice command “Hey, Qira”, a special key, or via a permanent floating button

• Actions. Lenovo Qira is able to perform tasks on behalf of the user, using device capabilities and local AI, including offline. It coordinates work between applications and devices, manages agents, and simplifies complex processes without the need for manual control of each step
• Perception. The system forms a single knowledge base that combines user-selected interactions, documents, and memories across devices, while maintaining the priority of privacy and consent. Through cross-device perception, Lenovo Qira understands the context, sequence of actions, and personal habits, creating a dynamic model of the user’s digital life.

Built for real life situations

Lenovo Qira offers a set of features focused on the practical needs of users, helping them stay focused, work efficiently, and stay on top of their digital tasks:

• The Next Step. Qira offers proactive contextual suggestions based on the user’s current activity and supports continuity between devices. It helps you move to the next action without unnecessary steps or switches

• Write for me: From emails and documents to messages and notes, Lenovo Qira helps you create text right in your workspace. It takes into account the context, style, and intent of the user, helping to quickly turn ideas into structured text
• Live interaction. Lenovo Qira supports multimodal interaction during screen or camera sharing. It analyzes both speech and visual content, providing a natural and continuous interaction with AI
• Bring me up to speed. After a break, Lenovo Qira can summarize the events that occurred during the user’s absence, highlight the main things and help you quickly return to work or conversation
• Stay on top of things. Lenovo Qira accompanies meetings and conversations by providing real-time transcription and translation when the feature is activated. It captures key points and generates a summary for later review, allowing you to quickly recall the details of the agreements.

For scenarios requiring more creative work, specialized AI tools, such as Creator Zone, help create and edit visual content and photos without disrupting the creative process and maintaining control over the result.

Privacy and the ecosystem

Lenovo Qira is built with privacy by default. The hybrid architecture prioritizes on-device data processing, keeping personal information local, while secure cloud services extend capabilities while maintaining strict security and user control. The user experience is focused on ethics, security, and responsibility.

The platform is supported by an ecosystem of partners who add specialized intelligence without disrupting the unified user experience:

• Microsoft provides the AI stack through Windows Foundry and Microsoft Azure for secure migration between on-premises and cloud computing and consistent experience across PCs, tablets, and smartphones
• Stability AI in Creator Zone allows you to create images from text directly on the device using Stable Diffusion 3.5 Flash models
• Notion integrates data search and analysis in the user’s workspace, creating a unified personal knowledge base
• Perplexity adds the ability to analyze topics in depth with reasoned answers and clarifying questions
• Expedia Group, through the Expedia and Vrbo brands, helps to select travel options based on user intentions and simplifies the transition to booking.

The functionality will be available under the name Lenovo Qira on Lenovo devices and Motorola Qira on Motorola devices. The rollout is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2026 for select Lenovo devices, with further expansion to supported Motorola smartphones. Lenovo AI Now users will receive updates gradually as the system becomes more widely available.

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