Position: It is Time to Virtualize Foundation Models with a Self-evolving Operating System Layer

What changed

A position paper proposes a Foundation Model Operating System layer to virtualize foundation model interactions, resource allocation, and policy enforcement across agentic systems.

Why you should care

Transitioning to a unified virtualization layer could standardize state, memory, and governance across fragmented agent stacks.

Your move

Watch. Monitor developments in operating system abstractions for AI before changing core infrastructure.

Evidence

Preliminaryarxiv.org ↗

What to watch next

The release of open source reference implementations or runtime prototypes for a Foundation Model Operating System.

Event

research

Event date

Sep 18, 2026

Relevant to

General AI readers