Hands on: HP OmniBook Ultra is an ultra-thin, 55 TOPS AI powerhouse

Attending HP's Imagine AI event in New York City last Thursday gave me a real indication about the direction AI laptops are heading in. My main takeaway is that manufacturers are going to continue to push the limits on TOPS--tera operations per second, the processing speed of NPUs in AI PCs--as mobile workers dig deeper into the kinds of benefits generative AI will deliver them. Proof of that was HP's announcement of a new laptop in its consumer portfolio: the HP OmniBook Ultra PC. The 14-inch clamshell-style laptop, designed for hybrid workers, makes a big leap in AI processing over the previously announced HP OmniBook X, offering what HP claims is an industry-leading 55 TOPS AI processing power in a laptop this thin. The HP OmniBook Ultra looks almost identical to its stablemate the HP OmniBook X.