Hailing from Cyanogen's cofounder, Kora is a next-gen alternative to Windows and macOS for power users running local AI models. Kirt McMaster knows that his new operating system--Kora--won't be for everyone, and he's fine with that. Kora, announced on Tuesday, is designed as a desktop alternative to Windows or macOS for "the AI native, not mass market," he says. McMaster, the company's CEO and cofounder--who also cofounded Boost Mobile--likens his strategy to how Steve Jobs targeted creators when overhauling desktop publishing with the Mac . This "next-generation" desktop OS can integrate context from user interactions across multiple AI tools.

Intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) such as Siri and Google Assistant are designed to enhance human capabilities and perform tasks on behalf of users. The emergence of LLM agents brings new opportunities for the development of IPAs. While responsive capabilities have been widely studied, proactive behaviors remain underexplored. Designing an IPA that is proactive, privacy-preserving, and capable of self-evolution remains a significant challenge. Designing such IPAs relies on the cognitive architecture of LLM agents. This work proposes Cognition Forest, a semantic structure designed to align cognitive modeling with system-level design. We unify cognitive architecture and system design into a self-reinforcing loop instead of treating them separately. Based on this principle, we present Galaxy, a framework that supports multidimensional interactions and personalized capability generation. Two cooperative agents are implemented based on Galaxy: KoRa, a cognition-enhanced generative agent that supports both responsive and proactive skills; and Kernel, a meta-cognition-based meta-agent that enables Galaxy's self-evolution and privacy preservation. Experimental results show that Galaxy outperforms multiple state-of-the-art benchmarks. Ablation studies and real-world interaction cases validate the effectiveness of Galaxy.

Raj is building his fifth company, a conversational AI platform and solutions venture. I really like the PaaS strategy. Sramana Mitra: Let's start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as the company. Raj Koneru: I'm the Founder and CEO of Kore.ai. I've been an entrepreneur for about 25 years. Prior to this, I built about five companies, starting with an IT services company. The first two companies went public. The latest company that I built is called Kony, which is an enterprise mobile application platform. Sramana Mitra: We know Kony well. We've covered Kony. Raj Koneru: About six years ago, I decided to build this company called Kore.ai. This is a fast-growing company in the conversational AI space, which helps large enterprises automate their interactions with their customers, employees, and partners. Sramana Mitra: If you could start us off with a bit of an ecosystem map of the conversational AI space, that would be great. It is not a crowded