Company founded by Cyanogen co-founder Kirt McMaster developing an AI-native Linux desktop OS.
KORA Systems has unveiled KORA OS, billed as the first operating system built from the ground up for AI PCs, embedding agentic workflows, contextual memory and local inference at the system level rather than bolting an AI assistant onto a conventional OS. Built on NixOS, it uses a proprietary Cortex inference engine to orchestrate CPU, GPU and NPU resources, debuting on Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite before expanding to AMD and Intel x86 platforms.
Kirt McMaster, co-founder of the defunct Cyanogen, has launched Kora Systems, a Linux-based desktop OS that bakes AI models and autonomous agents directly into the computing experience, letting them work across apps, access files, and retain context between tasks. The free OS is slated for 2027 with support for Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm Snapdragon PCs, built by a roughly 50-person team using AI coding tools like Codex and Claude.