Lenovo recently announced at IFA 2024 in Berlin that their new Yoga and IdeaPad devices will be equipped with Creator Zone, an on-device AI aimed at enhancing the creative process. The application is targeted towards graphic designers, content creators, and marketers and utilizes a specially tuned version of Stable Diffusion 3.0 exclusive to Lenovo. Through natural language processing, Creator Zone can generate and modify images based on user input such as text prompts, sketches, and reference images.
Users can receive up to four image suggestions based on their text or sketch prompts, allowing for further exploration and iteration. Additionally, the application allows for image-to-image generation, enabling the creation of variations in styles and themes. Users can also edit various aspects of the generated images, including background changes, merging images, and color adjustments.
“These new products are designed to be more personalized, stimulate creativity, enhance productivity, and seamlessly integrate into the tech-centric lives of users,” said Jun Ouyang, Lenovo’s senior vice president and general manager of Consumer Business Segment, Intelligent Devices Group.
Lenovo Creator Zone will be pre-installed on the newly announced Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition, Yoga Pro 7, IdeaPad Slim 5, IdeaPad Slim 5x, and IdeaPad Slim 5x 2-in-1. It will also be available for download in October as an optional feature for Lenovo Yoga devices with discrete GPUs like the Yoga Pro 9i. Support for other Yoga devices will be added later.
During IFA, Digital Trends had the opportunity to test the application and was impressed with its performance. Whether used on a laptop with a discrete GPU or a Copilot+ PC with a powerful NPU, the application showed minimal lag and fast response times. Image generation from simple prompts took seconds, while more complex requests took slightly longer.
Lenovo joins other tech giants like Google, Microsoft, Apple, AMD, and Intel in incorporating on-device AI features into their products. With advancements in large language models and energy-efficient computing, the trend of “AI-enhanced” features in modern gadgets is expected to grow.
