Kora unveils Linux OS with AI workloads split across processors

Kora Systems unveiled a Linux desktop operating system whose inference engine can split AI model layers across processors and distribute workloads to machines on a local network. The company, led by Cyanogen co-founder Kirt McMaster, expects its enterprise Humain OS first in 2027, followed by Kora later that year. McMaster told Tom's Hardware that Google's Gemma 4 26B model runs entirely on the Snapdragon X2 Elite's Hexagon neural processor at 25 tokens per second for decoding, with 32K context. The engine builds on software including llama.cpp and ONNX. Only the Snapdragon X2 Elite's Hexagon is supported today. Intel support is planned; AMD neural processors will likely handle speech and embedding models rather than language models.