KORA
The Operating System for Intelligence
KORA in the press
WIRED · USA“Kora is a next-gen alternative to Windows and macOS built for power users running local AI models.”TechPowerUp“The first bottom-up OS designed specifically for AI PCs, enabling agentic workflows.”Yonhap · Korea · Translated“A computer OS that runs AI without the internet is coming.”Tom's Hardware · USA“Kora is a Linux OS that splits AI models across the CPU, GPU, and NPU”Spider's Web · Poland · Translated“Windows has a rival.”TechCrunch · USA“After challenging Google’s Android with Cyanogen, its co-founder takes aim at Windows for AI era”Hardware Upgrade · Italy · Translated“KORA wants to reinvent the operating system for the AI era.”Android Headlines · USA“A Linux desktop designed from the ground up for AI agents and power users.”ETNews · Korea · Translated“Qualcomm and KORA start the move off Windows.”SiliconANGLE · USA“Kora builds AI models and agents into a new Linux OS bound for Qualcomm Snapdragon PCs”Tweakers · Netherlands · Translated“Users can choose and run their own AI models and agents.”Root Nation · Ukraine“Kora is worth watching.”Gadgets 360 · India“Kora Unveils AI-Powered Linux OS That Lets AI Agents Work Across Apps and Files”WIRED · USA“By tapping into your data and context at a machine level, Kora could streamline some of the current speed bumps of using AI tools on a desktop.”
The desktop OS was once something only a giant could build.
That era just ended.
We believe 50 superpowered engineers can take on the Windows dynasty.
We are doing it by building an open intelligence ecosystem, from the kernel up.
Franck De Girolami, Chief Technology Officer, KORA Systems Inc.
“The desktop operating system is the ultimate harness.”
Models. Memory. Context. Apps. Silicon.
The operating system is the only layer that can make them one.
One intelligence layer across work, creation, and play. Local by default, frontier when it matters, yours all the time.
“Anthropic defines its individual customers as ‘prosumers’: people who subscribe to AI tools to do knowledge work... executing multi-step workflows on a user’s desktop.”
Founders
“The desktop operating system is the ultimate harness. Roughly 45 million people, about half a percent of the world, account for 80 percent of the spend on intelligence. They are the AI-native prosumers who run agents and coding tools all day, and almost all of that work happens on a desktop running an operating system built 40 years ago. By 2033 that is more than 150 million of them spending over $400 billion a year. Nobody has built an operating system for them. KORA is the first.”
“I joined Android when it had a hundred thousand users and left when it had a billion. It got there because it was open to everyone who wanted to build on it. Intelligence is the next platform shift, and it needs the same thing: an operating system where every model, every service and every agent is a first-class citizen. KORA opens that door on day one. The ecosystem that walks through it will decide the next decade of computing.”
“An operating system was once something only a giant could build. That era just ended. We believe 50 superpowered engineers can take on Windows. In January 2023 we started hiring for this, from the kernel up, and the result was GameOS, a full Linux operating system running on shipping hardware. Now the same engineers work side by side with frontier and local models and agents, and each of them ships what a team used to ship. The acceleration is astonishing. Our own product is the evidence: KORA is built inside KORA.”
