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Motorola and its parent company Lenovo launched a new system-level artificial intelligence assistant on Tuesday designed to understand context, suggest follow-up actions, and move seamlessly across companies’ different devices. The assistant named Qira is unveiled in CES In Las Vegas, along with new devices including Motorola Razr Fold, Razr Viva Edition and Moto watch.
To use Qira, you don’t need to open or switch to a separate app. It’s built-in at the system level and can move between Motorola and Lenovo gadgets like your device phone, tablet, computer and Wearable devicesAll while maintaining continuity, so you can pick up where you left off.
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“It’s always there: understanding what you’re doing and supporting you in the moment, with your permission,” Lenovo and Motorola wrote in a press release. “By sharing experiences with you over time, it learns your intentions, anticipates your needs, and behaves in ways that feel natural and personal.”
Qira is designed to understand context and reduce the need to search across apps. For example, an AI assistant might tell you that your flight departs today, and once you arrive at the airport, it will automatically check you in — no need to search through any apps or think about which device contains the information. Reminders, notes, and notifications will sync across your Motorola and Lenovo devices.
“Our goal is to make AI feel less like a tool you use and more like intelligence that works with you continuously and naturally,” Dan Deere, vice president of AI ecosystem at Lenovo’s Smart Devices Group, said in a statement.
Along with Qira, Motorola debuted the Motorola Razr Fold, which is also compatible with the AI assistant.
You can summon Qira by saying “Hey, Qira” or pressing the designated key on your Lenovo or Motorola device. You can use it to draft documents and messages in a tone similar to your own. Qira can provide real-time transcription and translations to help during meetings, along with creating summaries and recording key points. It can also summarize the notifications on your device and highlight the most important things you may have missed since you’ve been gone. Qira also works offline, so you don’t have to rely on an internet connection to keep going.
Motorola says Qira will work with other AI platforms such as Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Confusion. The company has teamed up with these major AI players to enable a range of features on its Razr phones, with Qira building on efforts previously billed as Moto Artificial Intelligence. The introduction of Qira will further strengthen these partnerships, and will hopefully make mobile AI more intuitive and useful to use, rather than a gimmick.
Lenovo Qira, or Motorola Qira, depending on which device you’re using, will debut on a handful of Lenovo devices in the first quarter of this year, before expanding to supported Motorola smartphones.
Mobile competitors also like it Samsung and Google If they continue to load up their devices with AI features, it will be interesting to see how Qira pushes assistant AI forward — and how its counterparts respond.