Kimi K3
Premium plan
The strongest brain Turing AI OS can drive, and the one we default to. Roughly twenty times the token cost of the daily brain.
Yours in two choices
Choose your AI. Then choose its voice.
The whole desktop is driven by its assistant, so setup asks you two things before anything else: which model should think, and which voice should answer. Both move in Settings whenever you change your mind.
1 Choose your AI
The assistant runs the machine, so the model matters more here than in a chat window. Pick the one that fits how you work — and what you want to pay.
DeepSeek
Daily brain
Included with the machine and far cheaper to run. Good for everyday requests, weaker on long or unusual ones.
Local Qwen3
Offline, on your machine
No account, no bills, and nothing leaves the computer. Expect to repeat yourself more often than you would with a frontier model.
Or bring your own key — Claude, Grok, DeepSeek and Kimi all work directly, billed by your provider instead of by us. You can also run the desktop with no model at all.
2 Choose your voice
35 professional voices across 7 locales, spoken on the machine rather than in a datacentre. These are the same voices the installer offers you — press play to hear the real thing.
Lessac
professional warm
“Hello. This is Lessac, a professional warm voice for Turing AI OS.”
Ryan
professional clear
“Hello. This is Ryan, a professional clear voice for Turing AI OS.”
Story
professional narrative
“Hello. This is Story, a professional narrative voice for Turing AI OS.”
Amy
professional crisp
“Hello. This is Amy, a professional crisp voice for Turing AI OS.”
Bryce
professional deep
“Hello. This is Bryce, a professional deep voice for Turing AI OS.”
Cori
professional soft
“Hello. This is Cori, a professional soft voice for Turing AI OS.”
Alan
professional clear
“Hello. This is Alan, a professional clear British voice for Turing AI OS.”
Alba
professional warm
“Hello. This is Alba, a professional warm British voice for Turing AI OS.”
Jenny
professional bright
“Hello. This is Jenny, a professional bright British voice for Turing AI OS.”
Northern
professional deep
“Hello. This is Northern, a professional deep British voice for Turing AI OS.”
Artur
profesionalni studio
“Živjo. Tukaj je Artur, profesionalni studijski glas za Turing AI OS.”
Artur
profesionalni jasen
“Dobro jutro. Tukaj je Artur, jasen profesionalni glas za Turing AI OS.”
Artur
profesionalni topel
“Lep pozdrav. Tukaj je Artur, topel profesionalni glas za Turing AI OS.”
Artur
profesionalni živahen
“Živjo. Tukaj je Artur, živahen profesionalni glas za Turing AI OS.”
Artur
profesionalni umirjen
“Dober dan. Tukaj je Artur, umirjen profesionalni glas za Turing AI OS.”
Thorsten
professionell klar
“Guten Tag. Das ist Thorsten, eine professionelle Stimme für Turing AI OS.”
Thorsten
professionell neutral
“Guten Tag. Das ist Thorsten, eine neutrale professionelle Stimme für Turing AI OS.”
Thorsten
professionell warm
“Hallo. Das ist Thorsten, eine warme professionelle Stimme für Turing AI OS.”
MLS Anna
professionell hell
“Guten Tag. Das ist Anna, eine helle professionelle Stimme für Turing AI OS.”
MLS Bernd
professionell tief
“Guten Tag. Das ist Bernd, eine tiefe professionelle Stimme für Turing AI OS.”
Siwis
professionnelle douce
“Bonjour. Voici Siwis, une voix professionnelle douce pour Turing AI OS.”
Tom
professionnel clair
“Bonjour. Voici Tom, une voix professionnelle claire pour Turing AI OS.”
Jessica
professionnelle vive
“Bonjour. Voici Jessica, une voix professionnelle vive pour Turing AI OS.”
Pierre
professionnel posé
“Bonjour. Voici Pierre, une voix professionnelle posée pour Turing AI OS.”
MLS Camille
professionnelle chaude
“Bonjour. Voici Camille, une voix professionnelle chaude pour Turing AI OS.”
Dave
profesional clara
“Hola. Soy Dave, una voz profesional clara para Turing AI OS.”
Sharvard
profesional profunda
“Hola. Soy Sharvard, una voz profesional profunda para Turing AI OS.”
Sharvard
profesional cálida
“Hola. Soy Sharvard, una voz profesional cálida para Turing AI OS.”
Claude
profesional brillante
“Hola. Soy Claude, una voz profesional brillante para Turing AI OS.”
Ald
profesional serena
“Hola. Soy Ald, una voz profesional serena para Turing AI OS.”
Pim
professioneel helder
“Hallo. Dit is Pim, een professionele heldere stem voor Turing AI OS.”
Ronnie
professioneel warm
“Hallo. Dit is Ronnie, een professionele warme stem voor Turing AI OS.”
Nathalie
professioneel zacht
“Hallo. Dit is Nathalie, een professionele zachte stem voor Turing AI OS.”
RDH
professioneel diep
“Hallo. Dit is RDH, een professionele diepe stem voor Turing AI OS.”
MLS Saskia
professioneel helder
“Hallo. Dit is Saskia, een professionele heldere stem voor Turing AI OS.”
Every voice here is generated on the machine with no network connection. More can be bought from studio partners inside Settings.
Why we built it
The assistant shouldn't be another window.
Bolt-on AI can talk about your computer. It can't use it. Turing AI OS replaces the desktop shell itself, so the assistant sits next to the window manager and the filesystem instead of in a browser tab — and can actually act.
It runs the desktop
The agent has the same controls you do: focus and close windows, tile and snap, switch desktops, set volume, change the wallpaper, open apps and files.
It listens and answers
Say “Hey Turing” and speak. Speech recognition and the voice itself run on the machine — no round trip, no microphone stream leaving the building.
It still runs your apps
Wayland applications run natively, older X11 ones through XWayland, and Flatpak installs land in the dock beside the Turing apps. Only the shell is new.
The command panel
Ask for the outcome, not the steps.
One panel, always a keystroke away. Type or talk, and the agent plans, calls the tools it needs, checks the result and tries again if it missed.
- Three modes. Desktop for the machine, Coding for repositories, General for everything else.
- Real tools. Window control, file read and write, search and replace, shell, screen capture.
- MCP built in. Point it at any Model Context Protocol server and those tools join the loop.
- Your choice of brain. Kimi, DeepSeek, local Qwen3 or your own key.
Nav
Folder-less, not file-less.
Nav opens on what you were actually doing — recents, projects, continue from
yesterday. No tree to climb, no six clicks into ~/Documents.
Underneath, nothing is hidden or reinvented. Your files stay exactly where they are on disk, readable by every other tool on the machine.
- Cards, not trees. Places and projects instead of nested directories.
- Ask for a file. Describe it in words and the agent resolves the path.
- Standard filesystem. Real paths on disk, indexed by the system underneath.
Voice
“Hey Turing.”
Wake word, transcription and speech all run locally — whisper.cpp for listening, Piper for the voice. Turn off the network and it still answers.
- On-device by default. Audio is processed on the machine, not in a datacentre.
- 35 voices across seven locales ship on the install image — hear them above.
- Studio voices. Buy professional voices from partners inside Settings.
Included
A suite the agent can drive.
Every app ships with the system and exposes its own tools, so “draft a reply and put the numbers in a sheet” is one instruction rather than four programs.
Writer
AI-native word processor with a co-author, templates and PDF export.
IMAP and SMTP client the agent can read, draft and send from.
Sheets
Spreadsheet you can question in plain language.
Planner
A calm day planner built for everyday people, not project managers.
Glance
Web results as structured panels — weather, cinema, shopping.
Nav
Folder-less places, recents and projects over the real filesystem.
Teach
Language tutor that speaks back using the on-device voice.
Turing Code
Native coding agent with its own runtime and repository tools.
Settings
Themes, voices, AI brain, displays and activation in one place.
Developer
Scaffold, pack and install sandboxed .turingapp packages.
Terminal
The familiar Linux terminal, prewarmed to open instantly.
Screenshots
This is it actually running.
Straight captures from a current build, not renders. It is deliberately quiet — there is no desktop full of icons to tidy, because you ask for what you want.
Under the hood
Written in Rust. Honest about the rest.
Turing AI OS owns the parts you touch and leaves the plumbing to boring, proven components. Here is exactly what that means.
- Core
- Linux kernel with systemd, PipeWire audio, NetworkManager and portals beneath the Turing shell.
- Display
- Wayland session written in Rust on Smithay, with XWayland for legacy applications.
- Window management
- Tile, float, snap, minimise, Alt+Tab and four virtual desktops.
- Assistant
- In-shell command panel with a plan → tool → verify loop, plus an MCP client for external tools.
- Voice
- “Hey Turing” wake word, whisper.cpp speech recognition, Piper text to speech across 7 locales. All on-device.
- Third-party apps
.turingapppackages sandboxed with bubblewrap and explicit capability grants.- Distribution
- Bootable ISO for a clean install, or a
.debpackage for an existing Linux system. x86-64. - Licence
- Compositor and apps are MIT. Cloud services are commercial.
- Not there yet
- Notification centre, volume and brightness overlays, screen recording and semantic file search are on the roadmap, not in your hands today.
What it costs
Free offline. Frontier when you want it.
The operating system is free either way. What changes is which model answers you — and you can switch at any time in Settings.
Local
Free / forever
Qwen3 running on your own machine. Included on every install.
- Works with no internet connection
- Nothing leaves the computer
- No account, no activation code
- Full voice stack included
Hosted
£10 / month allowance
Frontier models through Turing AI OS Cloud. Activate with the code printed in your box.
- DeepSeek daily brain included
- Kimi K3 on the premium plan
- No AI accounts or API keys to manage
- Falls back to local when you run out
Your own key
Free / you pay the model
Bring an existing account and Turing AI OS will use it directly.
- Claude, Grok, DeepSeek and Kimi
- Billed by your provider, not by us
- Swap models per conversation
- Ideal for teams with existing contracts
Turing Mini
Or buy it already installed.
Turing AI OS is tuned on our own hardware. Both machines arrive set up, activated and ready to talk to — designed in London, shipped with a UK plug.
Turing Core — £400
The everyday machine. Enough headroom to run the local model and still work.
Turing Apex — £750
For bigger local models, heavier multitasking and creative pipelines.
Early access
Put it on your own machine.
Turing AI OS installs alongside your current system or takes the whole disk. We are inviting testers in batches while the install image settles — leave your email and we'll send the ISO and release notes as soon as your batch opens.
x86-64 only. One email when your batch opens — no newsletter.
Questions
The things people ask first.
Is this just another Linux desktop?
No. Turing AI OS is its own operating system — our Wayland shell, our assistant, our voice stack and our app suite, written in Rust. The plumbing nobody wants to reinvent is standard Linux, which is why your hardware, drivers and existing applications work on day one.
Do my existing Linux apps still work?
Yes. Wayland applications run natively and older X11 applications run through XWayland. Flatpak installs appear in the dock alongside the Turing apps.
Does it need an internet connection?
Only if you pick a hosted brain. Local Qwen3 runs entirely on the machine, and the voice stack — wake word, speech recognition and the voice itself — is always on-device. Choose Kimi or DeepSeek and those requests leave; choose local and nothing does.
Where does my data go?
If you use a local model, your prompts and documents never leave the computer. If you choose a hosted model, those requests go through Turing AI OS Cloud to the model provider. Settings always shows which brain is answering.
Can I change the voice later?
Any time, in Settings. 35 voices across 7 locales ship on the install image — you can hear all of them here — and more can be bought from studio partners.
Can I try it without wiping my disk?
Yes. The ISO boots to a live desktop you can try before installing anything, and the installer offers a guided dual-boot that shrinks your existing partition instead of replacing it.
Is it finished?
No, and we would rather say so. The compositor, window management, assistant, voice and the app suite work today. Notifications, on-screen volume and brightness overlays, screen recording and semantic file search are still being built.
What does it cost?
The operating system is free and the source is MIT licensed. We make money on hardware and on the hosted AI allowance that comes with a Turing Mini.