This link has more info: http://www.xda-developers.com/jide-announce-multi-windo...

lnanek2 on Jan 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: RemixOS – Android for the desktop

> Today’s public release of Remix OS, based on Android x86, is something that we’ve been working towards since we founded Jide Technology in 2014

So it's a commercial fork of the Android x86 project, basically.