Lenovo and Motorola unveil Qira AI assistant and Motorola's Project Maxwell

At CES, Lenovo and Motorola introduced Qira, an AI assistant designed to work across their ecosystem of devices, including smartphones, wearables, PCs and tablets. Lenovo says Qira goes beyond traditional chatbots by performing tasks across devices and apps — including transferring files both online and offline — and by acting as an ambient, context-aware intelligence.

Lenovo described a "fused knowledge base" that combines user-selected interactions, documents and memories to create a "living model of the user's world." Features highlighted include Next Move, which offers contextual suggestions, and Catch Me Up, which summarizes what happened 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 also said user privacy and consent are core, with a hybrid architecture that prioritizes on-device processing and uses secure cloud services only when necessary.

Motorola's 312 Labs demonstrated Project Maxwell, described as an "AI Perceptive Companion Proof of Concept" that uses Motorola Qira. ZDNET reporter Sabrina Ortiz said she got a demo of the pin, which includes a camera and a magnetic back with a chain option; in the demo it provided directions, ordered an Uber and sent a text without the user taking out a phone.

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