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The Company Behind GameOS is Now Building an AI Desktop OS Based on Linux
Kirt McMaster founded Playtron in 2022, and the company went on to build GameOS, a Linux-based operating system for gaming PCs. It now goes by KORA Systems Inc. and is launching a new AI-focused desktop operating system.
The OS shares the KORA name, with GameOS living inside it as GameFrame, a dedicated mode for turning the system into a game console. We received a press release regarding this weeks before the launch, so this write-up might be missing some updates.
KORA is a desktop OS developed on a Linux base, with AI models and agents built right into the system. Don't think that it is an app or a layer over another one; it's a standalone offering.
The company says AI workloads on macOS and Windows stay boxed into a single app or tab, with those having no view of the hardware underneath. KORA is built on the idea that AI belongs inside the OS.
The desktop is organized around neural workspaces, where each one keeps a project or client apart from the rest, and the AI only sees the workspace that is open. Files in it also keep their own version history.
Each workspace doubles as a sandbox too. The user sets what files, devices, AI tools, and online services every app and agent can access, while AppArmor enforces it all.
Search in the neural file system works on meaning, so a person or an agent can find a file by what it contains.
Its memory system builds context from the email, contacts, calendar, and cloud files the user connects. Local models run that analysis on the device, and data goes to the cloud only with the user's approval.
Cortex is the engine behind the models, and it spreads AI work over the CPU, GPU, and NPU, then passes some of it to other computers on the network.
Local models run by default, and cloud ones only join when a task needs them. KORA speculates that local models will handle roughly seven in ten of the calls it manages in 2027.