Meet Qira AI, Lenovo’s big bet on an ever-present AI helper

If you’ve been waiting — like we have — for truly useful artificial-intelligence applications to land on your laptop, Lenovo has an answer: Qira, a Lenovo-authored AI app that will live on new, select Lenovo PCs and Qira smartphones in the first quarter of 2026.

Lenovo describes Qira as an “ambient” intelligence, which might be both good or bad; Windows’ Clippy was famously an assistant which tried to understand what you were doing and offer assistance. Qira sounds like something similar...