Humain Unveils Horizon Pro: A Revolutionary AI-Powered Laptop with Custom OS

This Dedicated AI Laptop From Humain and Qualcomm Is Like No PC I've Ever Seen Before

Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's European correspondent, covering tech policy and Big Tech in the EU and UK. Unofficially, she serves as CNET's Taylor Swift correspondent. You can also find her writing about tech for good, ethics and human rights, the climate crisis, robots, travel and digital culture. She was once described a "living synth" by London's Evening Standard for having a microchip injected into her hand. You might think you know PCs, but I can guarantee you haven't seen one exactly like this before. A new laptop unveiled 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 the companies didn't specify if it was the X2 Elite chip, unveiled on Wednesday. Humain claims the laptop can operate up to 100 times faster than human thought. Don't miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. Add CNET as a preferred Google source. "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. Its simple interface gives you options like "chat," "generate image," "knowledge retrieval" and "doc summarizer." It looks and feels different from any other laptop interface you might be used to, with a simple array of task-focused tiles rather than a windows -- or apps-based display. The Horizon Pro is for both enterprise and consumer customers. The consumer version is tailored for personal and creative use, shipping with pre-installed Humain AI applications designed to help with specific tasks, such as providing homework assistance and generating stories through chats and images. Detailed specs are currently unknown, except for the fact that it has a zero-latency wake time and over 18 hours of battery life. 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." 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.

First Look: Is the Humain AI PC Where Enterprise PCs Are Destined to Go?

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Don't miss out on our latest stories. Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google. LAHAINA, MAUI -- At Snapdragon Summit 2025, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon held a brief conversation with Tareq Amin, CEO of AI solutions provider Humain AI, around the future of agentic AI. The conclusion of the talk, though, surfaced a hardware surprise: the introduction of the Horizon Pro PC, which the AI firm posits will be a pioneer in bringing agentic AI to the enterprise -- and herald, in time, the end to today's idea of the IT hardware refresh cycle. Pretty heady claims, yes? But the idea is all about a change of mindset in the age of AI. According to CEO Amin, Humain (a portmanteau of "human" and "AI") isn't doing this to grapple in the hardware market as a PC maker. Instead, it's looking to change the model entirely. Amin gave the example of Windows, which has been around since 1981 but fundamentally uses the same basic paradigm -- clickable icons and app-centricity -- as the through-line of its design throughout the decades. Humain's solution, instead, upends all that for the AI age: allowing for locally run AI tasks where privacy and speed are concerns, and cloud-assisted AI where that makes sense. And doing it from a task-based interface that handles lots of complexity under a veneer of natural commands. Humain One: Drop the Apps, and Just Ask for What You Want The Horizon laptops will be based on Humain One, an operating system that relies on user commands to run multi-part requests in the background, via agents, to execute business productivity work, or perform everyday tasks for consumers and students. This nascent OS taps into multiple services, and what we think of today as applications, via multiple layers of AI models working in concert with each other. Rather than you executing a complex task by opening multiple applications, then piecing together your own outputs and inputs from those apps to get where you need to go, this agentic AI front end runs all of that in the background for you, and serves up results. The LLM that Humain's AI tech runs on was originally trained in Arabic, and the laptop was designed in Saudi Arabia. We got only a brief look at the OS, which, to be frank, is early days and looks like it was in demo form for the Snapdragon Summit reveal. Right now, it looks just like a UI layer that acts as an overlay over Windows (here, Windows on Arm). Six tiles in a grid on the screen invite you to Generate Images, perform Knowledge Retrieval or run Doc Summarizer on your local documents, dig into stocks ("Stock Research Agent"), perform Story Generation, and more. As you can see, the demo version was a mishmash of likely business-oriented tasks and educational goals; when the time comes, the selection of the tiles on the UI will be customized for the specific Humain laptops and their matching markets. In addition to the Pro enterprise models, Horizon laptops will also be offered for students and consumers, and the UI will be geared toward the kinds of things they do and need. In our brief time with a Humain Horizon Pro during a press scrum, it was clear that the concept is just getting started. Horizon One looked less like an all-encompassing OS than an app itself, of sorts. Indeed, the implementation shown was something of a launcher overlay atop Windows on Arm. It was easy to get back to what we know as Windows. Really, the Hardware Isn't the Point In the initial launch materials, Humain claims that "the PC can operate up to 100 times faster than human thought," as unquantifiable a speed claim as we've heard. Still, Amin asserted that the laptop will feature more verifiable traits such as a "zero latency wake time," battery life better than 18 hours on a charge, and much reduced power consumption versus competing systems (on the order of up to 40% less). Much of that will be bound to the Snapdragon X Elite chip that powers it, and the reliance on the Qualcomm chip's efficient NPU for many tasks. The Horizon laptop on display, according to a placecard and a sneak peek at the specs page within Windows on Arm, was running not the new Snapdragon X2 Elite line announced at the summit but a first-gen Snapdragon X Elite X1E-80-100, paired with 32GB of memory and a 1TB SSD. Connectivity is what you'd expect, including Wi-Fi 7. Amin noted that Humain sourced the panel, a 2,880-by-1,880-pixel OLED screen, from Samsung, in an effort to create a cutting-edge laptop. But to a large extent, that's all beside the point. On stage, Amin asserted that this will be a "premium" enterprise solution, but come in at a very aggressive price that will turn heads: up to 40% lower than comparable enterprise solutions, and sold on a subscription model. He didn't disclose any numbers, but noted that the elimination of current IT-typical hardware refreshes every X number of years would make this a sea change in how businesses equip employees with PCs in the AI agentic age. The subscription model, in essence, would be a laptop lease and would incorporate hardware upgrades over time without time-consuming validation processes. Amin also pointed out that Human will offer a student version of the Horizon, the Horizon S, with a connected modem option, and that 500 initial models will be given away to students in an unspecified geography as part of the Horizon launch. Also on tap will be a Horizon Ultra, but no details were shared on that model. Pricing and availability specifics were also AWOL, but interested parties are asked to "register their interest" in the Horizon at the Humain Web page. (Note: PCMag is attending Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit by invitation, but in keeping with our ethics policy, we have assumed all costs for travel and lodging for the conference.)

'100 times faster than human thought.' Meet the Snapdragon laptop built for agentic AI

Details of the new Horizon Pro laptop aren't known, but it was unveiled at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit. Humain has unveiled the Horizon Pro PC, a laptop powered by agentic AI and a Snapdragon chip that the company claims "can operate 100 times faster than human thought." Humain says the laptop will run its own operating system, HUMAIN ONE OS, and it's designed for both consumers and enterprises. It also promises up to 18 hours of battery life thanks to the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite chip inside it. Other key specs include 32GB of RAM, 1TB of SSD storage, a 14-inch 2880×1800 OLED display, a 1080p webcam, and Wi-Fi 7 connectivity. "The HUMAIN Horizon Pro represents the future of intelligent personal computing," Cristiano Amon, the chief executive of Qualcomm, said in a statement. "Powered by our Snapdragon X Elite processors, it delivers groundbreaking performance and innovative AI-first experiences for enterprises and consumers. We are proud of this partnership with HUMAIN, which is delivering on the vision of disruptive agentic AI personal computing and hybrid AI." Humain said the Horizon Pro PC will be sold to businesses with an accompanying lease subscription that includes its AI solutions suite. The laptop will also be sold to consumers, with Humain's AI applications pre-installed, though it sounds like they'll need to be unlocked and activated. The company will also give away 500 laptops to students. Based in Saudi Arabia, the company was launched by the country's Public Investment Fund and was designed to lead the region in AI development. It has also announced an AI chat app called Humain Chat.

All-new Humain Horizon Pro AI laptop announced at Snapdragon Summit 2025 and it comes with its own OS -- here's what we know

Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit 2025 is bringing us an all-new Humain Horizon Pro laptop. Announced today (September 25), the new laptop aims to tackle the "future of agentic AI personal computing." The Humain Horizon Pro laptop, powered by the Snapdragon X Elite processor family (likely to be the just-announced Snapdragon X2 Elite CPU), is the first PC from global AI company Humain, established in Saudi Arabia. Not only is it designed with agentic AI in mind, but it also comes with its own Humain One OS. Announced during a fireside chat with Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon and Humain CEO Tareq Amin at the company's annual event, the AI-first laptop brings a recreated operating system, named Humain One. It runs on Windows on Arm, and it wants to deliver the next step on agentic AI on a PC. The operating system is expected to be designed as a "unified, adaptive interface to manage enterprise workflows, communications, and AI applications." Interestingly, it claims to also operate up to "100 times faster than human thought." If anything, this shows what the Snapdragon X Series processor can offer. Here's a sneak peek at the OS, according to its Humain website. What's more, the Horizon Pro laptop is also set to arrive with a claimed 18 hours of battery life and will come with an OLED display from Samsung, plus a 40% reduction in power consumption compared to competing systems. It integrates an Arabic-first Saudi LLM known as "ALLAM," and operates on locally on-device. "The Humain Horizon Pro represents the future of intelligent personal computing. Powered by our Snapdragon X Elite processors, it delivers groundbreaking performance and innovative AI-first experiences for enterprises and consumers," Qualcomm's Amon said. "The Humain Horizon Pro represents a paradigm shift in agentic AI personal computing, especially for enterprise environments where AI actively collaborates with users, both locally and in the cloud, to boost productivity," said Tareq Amin, CEO of Humain. The all-new Humain Horizon Pro laptop will be available to consumers and businesses around the globe, although there's no release date just yet. However, those interested can register to be an "early adopter" at the humain.ai website. As a final touch, Humain will give away 500 Horizon Pro PCs to students to empower the next generation of innovators and foster future leadership in AI-driven fields. There's still plenty to learn about Humain's AI-first Horizon Pro PC, and we're sure to get a hands-on look at the new laptop. Stay tuned for more!

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Now that Qualcomm has pulled back the curtain on its second-gen laptop chips, you can bet all the major names are gearing up to announce laptops powered by Snapdragon X2 Elite. It sounded like Samsung, Asus and the rest were about to be scooped by a Saudi start-up - but Humain (a part of the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, and not to be confused with Humane, the firm behind the failed AI pin) revealed its Horizon Pro laptop at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit running last-gen Snapdragon X Elite hardware. So why head all the way to Hawaii? The promise of 'agentic AI' on board that'll do a lot more than just digest your diary appointments or summarise your email inbox. The 14in ultraportable is coming soon - likely 2026 - with a Snapdragon X Elite chipset, up to 32GB of RAM, 1TB of SSD storage, and a 2.8K resolution OLED display supplied by Samsung. It's got a Full-size HDMI, two USB-Cs, one USB-A, and a 3.5mm port at the sides, and has a battery rated for up to 18 hours. Owners should also expect instant wakeup from sleep, with Humain saying power consumption will be as much as 40% lower than competing machines. A Horizon Ultra with always-on 5G modem is also in the works. Hardware isn't really the big play, though. Humain wants the Horizon Pro to open its suite of AI apps to the wider, non-Arabic speaking world. Right now they all run on Windows 11 - but the firm has a proprietary Humain One operating system in the pipeline. "ALLAM", Humain's home-grown large language model, was trained on Arabic language data first. It largely runs on the laptop itself - but can also tap into the cloud for extra processing oomph. The AI abilities are presented in a central Windows 11 app, and include a chatbot, image generator, and document summariser. The firm is already using its enterprise-grade features to manage HR and payroll. It's mostly aimed at enterprise, but can also generate stories and kid-friendly educational material. There's no official word yet on pricing, other than that there'll be both enterprise and consumer versions; the former will be launched with a leasing option to keep upfront costs in check, and a monthly subscription to Humain's AI-infused apps. It'll also include free hardware refreshes as part of the package. AI enthusiasts can put their name down for more info right now on the humain.ai website. Clarification: this article as initially published suggested the Humain Horizon Pro was using Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 Elite chipset. This is incorrect, and has been rectified in this updated version.