Early in 2025, the Motorola AI bundle was announced. It was a set of proactive AI-powered features that relied on a mix of Perplexity, Gemini, and Meta’s open-source AI models on smartphones. It offered on-screen guidance, voice-based assistance, improved search, and more such perks. At CES 2026, Motorola is announcing an evolution of that stack, which is also being implemented in Lenovo PCs, too.
The big picture
Say hello to Lenovo Qira and Motorola Qira. The companies refer to it as a single, built-in cross-device intelligence. The overarching idea behind Qira is to push an AI assistant at the center of the device experience, one that can get work done without asking users to open dedicated apps while also offering them helpful suggestions.
For example, if you are engaged in work, Qira will show you smart suggestions on the screen, somewhat like the Magic Cue system on Pixel phones. It can also handle tasks autonomously and across connected devices. And while at it, Qira relies on a system where it can perform certain tasks on-device, which means no data or activity history ever leaves your phone or laptop.
Among Qira’s most impressive features is Next Move, which is essentially a system of contextual suggestions based on the ongoing activity. For example, if you are looking at images of pizza, the AI can surface one-tap actions such as “look up recipes for homemade pizza,” or “remember this.”
What else?
Write For Me is there to assist users with their text-based chores, helping fix mistakes or adjust the tone of content. Then we have Live Interactions, which is similar to Gemini Live, and allows users to engage in a freewheeling conversation with the onboard AI about the content appearing on the screen or what it sees through the camera.
Apple, on the other hand, does it under the Visual Intelligence banner. The built-in Creator Zone on Lenovo PCs will let users create unlimited, on-device images using the Stability AI engine. Qira will also link up with Notion, and other services such as Expedua and Vrbo, down the road.
Qira has a variety of names for these AI actions, such as Catch Me Up, Pay Attention, Live Interaction, and more. Qira will make its way to Lenovo computers in the first quarter of 2026 and will eventually arrive on a select few Motorola phones later this year.
