openKylin presents a new vision for linux in the AI era at open source summit europe 2026

At Open Source Summit Europe 2026, openKylin, an open-source operating system community based in China, unveiled its vision for reimagining Linux in the AI era. Min Liu, Executive Director of openKylin, delivered a keynote titled 'From AI Runtime to System Agents: Reimagining Linux for the AI Era with openKylin,' introducing KART, a unified AI runtime, and a system-level agent execution environment. Jianfeng Li also presented a lightning talk on building an AI-ready Linux desktop on RISC-V. openKylin, which has over one million lines of core code contributed, is focused on integrating AI into operating systems. The project highlights advancements in inference acceleration, large-model support, and multiple distribution formats. With approximately 27 million deployments and 2.9 million active users as of October 2026, openKylin aims to strengthen its runtime foundation, enhance security, and foster an open ecosystem for hardware, models, and applications.