At Snapdragon Summit, a Saudi AI company teased a laptop running an agentic AI front end. Its founder says it’ll be a pioneer in eliminating the hardware upgrade cycle, as we know it today, from the business-PC equation.
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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.
