You might think you know PCs, but I can guarantee you haven’t seen one exactly like this before. A new laptop unveiled here at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii is a dedicated AI machine, designed to put AI agents at the heart of your computing experience.
The Horizon Pro PC is the first piece of consumer hardware from the Saudi artificial intelligence company Humain. It runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chip — although notably not the latest X2 Elite chip, which was unveiled on Wednesday. Humain says the laptop can operate up to 100 times faster than human thought.
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“Humain did not create this to be a PC maker,” said Humain CEO Tareq Amin at the Snapdragon Summit. “We created this to redefine the future user experience.”
The device’s core is an AI-focused operating system called Humain One, which sits on top of a chipset running on Windows on Arm. Its simple interface gives you options like “chat,” “generate image,” “knowledge retrieval” and “doc summarizer.” It looks and feels different to any other laptop interface you might be used to, with a simple array of task-focused tiles rather than a window- or app-based display.
The AI task-focused interface.
The Horizon Pro is for both enterprise and consumer customers. The consumer version is tailored for personal and creative use, shipping with preinstalled Humain AI applications designed to help with specific tasks, such as providing homework assistance and generating stories through chats and images.
In my brief hands-on time with the laptop, I experimented with the story generator by asking it to write a tale about a CNET journalist attending a tech conference in Hawaii. To my amusement, the generator did a pretty solid job of guessing what my day looks like when I attend these kinds of events, including predicting that I’d be interested in attending a session hosted by a prominent robotics entrepreneur. It even generated pictures to illustrate the yarn.
The Humain Story Generator.
At the launch of the Horizon Pro, Amin said it was important to him that the laptop was a “premium segment device.” Co-designed with Qualcomm, it has a high-spec OLED display from Samsung. According to Amin, it will be available on a subscription basis at “an extremely disruptive cost … 40% less than anything you find in the market.”
Other specs include 32GB of RAM, 1TB of solid-state storage, a 1080p camera with privacy shutter and Wi-Fi 7 for connectivity. It also has a zero-latency wake time and over 18 hours of battery life.
There will be three different product tiers available — the Horizon S for scholars, the Horizon Pro and the Horizon Ultra. A press release about the Horizon Pro promises global availability, but Humain hasn’t yet shared specific pricing or dates.
