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.

The company’s Puducherry plant, operational since 2005, has been upgraded to produce enterprise AI and GPU servers.

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.

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. Over 60% of the produce will be for export across the Asia-Pacific region.

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.