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The ‘QwenBook’ Laptop Can Run Every OS at Once, and It May Be PC Fans’ Worst Nightmare

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The ‘QwenBook’ Laptop Can Run Every OS at Once, and It May Be PC Fans’ Worst Nightmare

Tech companies keep trying to “reinvent” the PC with the help of AI, and it only has amounted to chatbots stuffed into every crevice of the laptop experience. Well, not to sound hyperbolic, but I’ve wrapped my mitts around what is the most eclectic laptop-like device ever devised, one that isn’t relegated to any one OS and its set of apps, all because it runs almost everything through AI.

Chinese tech monolith Alibaba showcased its AI-centric QwenBook laptop this week with little initial information to go on. I had the chance to actually use the laptop at Snapdragon Summit (full disclosure: travel and lodging were paid by Qualcomm, and Gizmodo did not guarantee any coverage as a condition of accepting the trip). Let’s just say that it’s equal parts intriguing, baffling, and exasperating. In essence, the PC is a convertible design with a tablet that magnetically adheres to a sturdy keyboard mount. There’s also an accompanying stylus to use the device like your typical iPad.

It gets more ludicrous from there. The QwenBook runs several on-device models as well as larger models like Qwen3.8-Max—Alibaba’s massive 2.4 trillion parameter model—through the cloud. Users are expected to make use of this chatbot interface to not only run the QwenBook but also to bring up apps from across the spectrum of operating systems, including a Windows, Android, or Linux environment. You can even run multiple apps from different operating systems at the same time.

Those demonstrating the Alibaba laptop couldn’t answer how the AI was accessing each separate OS environment, but it doesn’t seem like the QwenBook is running any simultaneous emulation.


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