Humain shows 14-inch Horizon Pro notebook with AI user interface
The 14-inch Horizon Pro notebook emphasises Humain's user interface for AI agents.
Humain Horizon Pro
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At this year's Snapdragon Summit, the Saudi Arabian state-owned company Humain, which was only founded in May of this year, presented its first laptop called Horizon Pro. Humain CEO Tareq Amin made it clear that although the technical specifications of the 14-inch device commissioned from Luxshare with a metal chassis, 2.8K OLED screen, and a first-generation Snapdragon X Elite processor fulfill a premium claim, they are not the decisive factor. Instead, he focused on the in-house user interface, through which the user interacts with various AI agents, which then perform routine tasks for them.
Amin stated that his company no longer has HR or finance departments but instead uses specialized AI agents that take care of paying salaries and issuing invoices on demand. Depending on the use case, the AI agent runs locally on the notebook's Neural Processing Unit (NPU) or in the cloud. Humain intends to make all the services it develops available to interested customers as a subscription model, who can then select what they need from a catalog of AI agents.
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Windows substructure
As visionary as this approach is, the technical implementation is just as traditional. Humain OS as a user interface is not an operating system in the conventional sense but an app that accesses a local Large Language Model (LLM). The actual operating system is Windows 11 in the ARM version that matches the Snapdragon processor.
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On the one hand, this decision is probably related to the fact that Linux on Snapdragon laptops has still not reached the level of maturity required for commercial use. On the other hand, a lot of essential Windows software is still in use in companies, which in the future will be operated by an AI agent instead of a human.
Still a lot up in the air
In addition to the Horizon Pro, Humain also wants to offer a Horizon S for the education market as well as a more powerful Horizon Ultra, which will be equipped with the recently announced Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme. Humain will announce prices and availability at a later date.
Note: Qualcomm invited the author to the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii and covered the travel expenses. (mue)
