Lenovo and Motorola introduce Qira AI assistant and Motorola's Project Maxwell pin at CES

Lenovo and Motorola announced Qira, a new AI assistant that will run across their device ecosystems, and Motorola showed Project Maxwell, a proof-of-concept AI wearable, at CES. Lenovo described Qira as a personal ambient intelligence system that works on smartphones, wearables, PCs, tablets and more, performing tasks across devices and apps and transferring files both online and offline.

Lenovo says Qira builds a "fused knowledge base" from user-selected interactions, documents and memories to create a "living model" of the user's world and offers features such as Next Move, which gives contextual suggestions, and Catch Me Up, which provides summaries of activity while a user was away.

"Lenovo Qira is not another assistant, it's a new way intelligence shows up across your devices," said Dan Dery, VP of AI Ecosystem in Lenovo's Intelligent Devices Group. Lenovo said privacy and consent are central to Qira, with a hybrid architecture that prioritizes on-device processing and keeps personal data local, while using secure cloud services when sending information to the cloud is necessary.

The company plans to roll Qira out to select Lenovo devices in Q1 2026 and expand it to supported Motorola smartphones afterward; the experience will appear as Lenovo Qira on Lenovo devices and Motorola Qira on Motorola devices.

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