KORA Announced As Linux Desktop OS "For The Age of Intelligence"

Backed by Samsung, Square Enix, and others, KORA Systems announced KORA OS today as a Linux distribution built for the age of "intelligent PCs". KORA was announced today by former Android and Cynagon developers as a AI-first Linux-based operating system. KORA is described as: "Built on Linux from the kernel up, KORA gives local models, frontier models and agentic services the system-level integration closed platforms cannot offer, and opens the entire operating system to every model, AI service and agent. ... KORA, The Operating System for Intelligence: a new desktop operating system, built on Linux, in which models and agents are part of the OS itself. KORA is a pure-play company building a truly native desktop operating system for intelligence, and it comes from a team that has already shipped three operating systems, Cyanogen, Android and GameOS, to more than a billion devices. Every desktop operating system in use today was finished before intelligence arrived. On macOS and Windows, AI lives in a browser tab or an app sandbox. It cannot see the machine it runs on, schedule the silicon beneath it, or reach the files, memory and applications around it. Both platforms are closed, so that is where the integration ends. Linux is the only operating system that can be completely transformed by intelligence. KORA is that transformation." While KORA was announced today, it's not being released for PCs until 2027. KORA is also working with Qualcomm on Snapdragon X laptop support. It will be interesting to see what comes out of this KORA effort. Those interested in today's initial details can be found via the KORA press release.