KORA puts models and agents inside a Linux OS

Kora Systems unveiled KORA on November 10, a Linux system built from kernel to desktop that treats models, agents, semantic files and sandboxed workspaces as native capabilities. Its Cortex hybrid-inference engine can split work across CPUs, GPUs, NPUs and other machines on a local network; the team says Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite Hexagon NPU decodes Gemma 4 26B at about 25 tokens per second. Hexagon is the only NPU explicitly supported today, with AMD and Intel support still planned. The consumer edition is expected later in 2027, pricing and the business model are undisclosed, and the performance figure lacks a standardized memory configuration and independent reproduction.