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Five months ago, Humain made a bold promise: it would change the way people interact with computers.
The Saudi Arabian company, launched only last May, argued it could replicate the human experience on computers, especially for work chores. AI Agents, Humain said, could replace apps and take instructions automatically to handle various work tasks.
After launch, the company quickly got to work on building a full stack of the computing model. The base is a home-grown operating system with a barebones interface built atop AI agents. Using that OS, customers can type in a command or verbally explain what they want done; the agents then follow up and complete the tasks while people deal with other duties. The OS essentially does away with the icons or click-throughs common in other modern-day OSes.
“I am 100% convinced — whether Humain does it, Google does it, Apple does it — this is the future UX,” Humain CEO Tareq Amin said at the FII9 conference last month in Riyadh. (He was part of a fireside chat alongside Alphabet President Ruth Porat and Oracle CEO Mike Sicilia.)
“We will get into a world where AI agents are integrated into one platform,” Amin said. “They are directly integrated with your enterprise system processes.”
Potential rivals like Microsoft and Google are already hyping their own AI-infused operating systems and productivity suites. Microsoft has made its Copilot tool an integral part of Windows 11, while Gemini is a key part of Google’s cloud-native tools. On the browser front, OpenAI and Perplexity have both shipped AI-centric browsers.
As for Humain, its ambitious...