BENGALURU (Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group will start making artificial intelligence (AI) servers at its plant in southern India and opened an AI servers-focussed R&D lab in the tech hub of Bengaluru, the electronics hardware maker said on Tuesday.

AI sever manufacturing and the infrastructure R&D lab is part of Lenovo's commitment to invest $1 billion in AI innovation over 2023-26

Lenovo will be making AI servers in India and exporting to other countries and has also opened a new R&D facility in Bengaluru.

India’s second largest PC maker’s bid to manufacture servers in India comes on the back of a three-year $1-billion investment in AI announced last year to develop AI platforms, computing devices and servers.

Lenovo India managing director Shailendra Katiyal said on Tuesday that the company will make servers locally and also export them from its manufacturing unit in Puducherry.

Lenovo India will start manufacturing 50,000 GPU-based AI servers in India next year, the company said on Tuesday.

PC maker Lenovo India will start manufacturing 50,000 GPU-based AI servers in India next year, the company said on Tuesday. Besides this, Lenovo announced setting up its fourth largest research and development centre in Bengaluru.

Global technology company Lenovo will start manufacturing high-performance AI servers in India. It has also opened a research and development lab focused on the company's infrastructure solutions.

The PC maker's production plant will be based in Puducherry, which will manufacture 50,000 enterprise AI servers and 2,400 high-end GPU units annually

The facility will cater to the booming AI infrastructure needs, with over 60% of the production expected to be exported across the Asia-Pacific region.