Kimi K3
Included for your first month
The brain we set up for you, because a desktop driven by a weak model is a worse computer. Fast enough to feel immediate, strong enough to be trusted with real work.
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.
Claude Opus 5
Pro usage plan
For long, awkward, multi-step jobs where you want the best reasoning available. Noticeably more capable, and it costs more per request — the meter shows you exactly how much.
Local Qwen3
Offline, on your machine
No account, no bills, nothing leaves the computer. It is the floor rather than the ceiling — expect to repeat yourself more than you would with a hosted brain.
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
26 professional voices across 6 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.
Lyra
professional clear
“Hello. This is Lyra, a professional clear voice for Turing AI OS.”
Kristin
professional warm
“Hello. This is Kristin, a professional warm voice for Turing AI OS.”
Norman
professional deep
“Hello. This is Norman, a professional deep voice for Turing AI OS.”
John
professional steady
“Hello. This is John, a professional steady voice for Turing AI OS.”
Story
professional narrative
“Hello. This is Story, a professional narrative voice for Turing AI OS.”
Cori
professional soft
“Hello. This is Cori, a professional soft 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.”
Anna
professionell hell
“Guten Tag. Das ist Anna, eine helle professionelle Stimme für Turing AI OS.”
Bernd
professionell tief
“Guten Tag. Das ist Bernd, eine tiefe professionelle Stimme für Turing AI OS.”
Clara
professionell warm
“Guten Tag. Das ist Clara, eine warme professionelle Stimme für Turing AI OS.”
Dieter
professionell ruhig
“Guten Tag. Das ist Dieter, eine ruhige professionelle Stimme für Turing AI OS.”
Elke
professionell klar
“Guten Tag. Das ist Elke, eine klare professionelle Stimme für Turing AI OS.”
Camille
professionnelle chaude
“Bonjour. Voici Camille, une voix professionnelle chaude pour Turing AI OS.”
Bastien
professionnel clair
“Bonjour. Voici Bastien, une voix professionnelle claire pour Turing AI OS.”
Colette
professionnelle douce
“Bonjour. Voici Colette, une voix professionnelle douce pour Turing AI OS.”
Damien
professionnel posé
“Bonjour. Voici Damien, une voix professionnelle posée pour Turing AI OS.”
Élise
professionnelle vive
“Bonjour. Voici Élise, une voix professionnelle vive pour Turing AI OS.”
Saskia
professioneel helder
“Hallo. Dit is Saskia, een professionele heldere stem voor Turing AI OS.”
Bram
professioneel diep
“Hallo. Dit is Bram, een professionele diepe stem voor Turing AI OS.”
Chantal
professioneel warm
“Hallo. Dit is Chantal, een professionele warme stem voor Turing AI OS.”
Daan
professioneel rustig
“Hallo. Dit is Daan, een professionele rustige stem voor Turing AI OS.”
RDH
professioneel zacht
“Hallo. Dit is RDH, een professionele zachte 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 K3, Claude Opus 5, 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.
- 26 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 6 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
- One licence per machine, bought once and yours to keep.
- 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
Buy it once. Then pay for what you use.
The licence is a single payment, not a subscription — the desktop keeps working whether or not you ever pay us again. The only running cost is the thinking, and you choose how much of that you want.
The licence
£49 / once, per machine
A perpetual licence for Turing AI OS. Download the image and install it yourself.
- Every app and every voice, no add-ons
- Updates and security fixes for this release
- Your first month on Kimi K3 included
- Yours to keep — no subscription required
AI usage
From £19 / month
Choose a monthly allowance for the assistant. Settings shows the meter, so you always know what you have spent and on what.
- Light — around four requests a day
- Standard — around a dozen a day
- Pro — for days spent inside the machine
- Change tier or top up whenever you like
Local Qwen3
£0 / included forever
An offline model on your own machine, there whether you subscribe or not.
- Works with no internet connection
- Nothing leaves the computer
- Catches you when an allowance runs out
- Blunter and slower than a hosted brain
Already paying for AI elsewhere? Bring your own key — Claude, Grok, DeepSeek and Kimi all work directly, billed by your provider instead of by us, with no usage plan needed.
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 Opus 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. 26 voices across 6 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?
£49 once for the licence, which includes your first month on Kimi K3. After that you only pay for AI usage, from £19 a month, and you can stop paying and keep using the desktop with the local model at any time.
Why does it cost anything when Linux is free?
Because Linux is the part underneath. What you are buying is the shell, the assistant, the app suite and the voice stack on top of it — years of work that nobody else has built. The same reason an Android phone costs money when the kernel inside it does not.