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 will manufacture 50,000 GPU-based AI servers starting next year, alongside the establishment of its fourth largest R&D centre in Bengaluru.