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Lenovo’s AI Host Mini—dedicated AI hardware plus a proprietary marketplace of 8,000 ‘skills’—is a concrete swing at making AI capabilities a local app store primitive. If you ship desktop or edge software, assume your users will expect plug‑and‑play AI functions at the OS/device level, not just inside your app.
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