building @OsaurusAI - prev @Tesla @Netflix - Local AI is the way

California, USA
Joined April 2009
Venice AI, Experiential Labs, Maple AI, thank you for being transparent. No gating the models, no collecting emails. I release these models for free, often with @jordanschenck also pitching in thousands of dollars to provide compute. It’s sad that we’ve reached a point where simply asking for public acknowledgment of your work is even necessary. I’ve seen far more instances of people not receiving proper credit than instances where they do. If you’re one of those people who aren’t properly crediting the people behind open source work, please don’t ruin it for the rest of those who do. And I don’t mean just in my case, but in general. Open source is how EVERYONE benefits, and undermining the trust within that ecosystem is detrimental to us all. Stealing work and refusing to give credit makes you no different from OpenAI or Anthropic.
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It’s now public! No invite required. Try it out and tell me what you think! Pairs great with @NVIDIARTXSpark devices like the @surface Laptop Ultra!
Privacy isn’t extinct. Osaurus is now on Windows.
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Privacy isn’t extinct. Osaurus is now on Windows.
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Here's a snippet of the @OsaurusAI iOS app that I'm currently working on. It's being built entirely in UIKit with no traces of SwiftUI for maximum performance and backward compatibility. Excited to bring the Mac app to mobile with Day 0 support for the new iPhone Duo!
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Osaurus is coming to your pocket. Native UIKit. Day 0 on iPhone Duo.
Here's a snippet of the @OsaurusAI iOS app that I'm currently working on. It's being built entirely in UIKit with no traces of SwiftUI for maximum performance and backward compatibility. Excited to bring the Mac app to mobile with Day 0 support for the new iPhone Duo!
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Building on the frontier. Local models. Your Mac. Electrons you already paid for.
Thanks for calling local models the frontier. Intelligence per watt is improving fast on its own curve. Soon local models will match what feels like frontier today. When that happens, there’s an enormous opportunity: tools, infrastructure, and support for people building businesses on the electrons they already paid for. Labs like @ornith_ , @Alibaba_Qwen , @liquidai , and @nanbeige are already pushing this forward with almost no revenue model. We’re building the infrastructure for it. Reach out if you want to learn more.
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I don't think people realize how capable Local AI has become. People compare them to the frontier models and conclude they are useless. That's like comparing a Honda Accord to a Bugatti Chiron. Not everyone needs a hypercar, and not every task needs a frontier model.
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NVIDIA spent its keynote selling AI factories. A Mac read the whole thing and built a webpage about it. The model found itself in the coverage. Flint 40B. Running locally. Native Swift. No Electron.
Introducing Flint, @Recursive_SI’s first model: a fast local coding model built with our automated research system, the Eureka Machine. • Best-in-class fast local coding • Up to 2x faster than comparable models: 125+ tokens/sec on a MacBook Pro, 150+ on RTX Spark • Built from scratch in under 4 months Private, unmetered intelligence on your own machine. Open weights available now on @huggingface, run it locally on your favorite framework or try it for free on @opencode or @pidotdev.
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6 of 7 local-first ideals, adapted for agents. The seventh is being built.
Your AI agent isn't yours if it needs someone else's server. In 2019, I read an essay about local-first software that I never got over. Seven years later, I built Osaurus around it. Here's why the thing that knows how you think should belong to you.
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Replying to @OsaurusAI
@OsaurusAI does the muscle, Ornith does the hustle. 🙌 Two bros took all daily grind. Check out the amazing work from Osaurus team!! 🔗 osaurus.ai
Congrats to the Ornith team. Ornith-1.5-122B is a monster. It’s in Osaurus on day one. Running on a Mac, no cloud, no subscription. One prompt. It built a flying car game.
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Congrats to the Ornith team. Ornith-1.5-122B is a monster. It’s in Osaurus on day one. Running on a Mac, no cloud, no subscription. One prompt. It built a flying car game.
Aloha!🌺 Meet Ornith-1.5-122B: No Tradeoff Between Strong and Fast Stronger. Faster. Leaner. Ornith-1.5-122B delivers frontier-level capabilities with exceptional inference efficiency. With superior instruction following, stronger task decomposition, and deeper understanding of real-world workflows, it achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source models of comparable size, while running on a single NVIDIA DGX card!! Open weights under the MIT license. Coding ✅SWE-bench Verified: 0.845 ✅TB2.1: 0.813 ✅CyberGym: 0.800 ✅NL2Repo: 0.512 Agentic ✅HLE: 0.446 ✅BrowseComp: 0.785 ✅MCP-Atlas: 0.746 ✅Toolathlon: 0.708 🤗Hugging Face: huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Orn… We can’t wait to see what you build with Ornith-1.5-122B.
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Replying to @NVIDIARTXSpark
@NVIDIARTXSpark we’re building for @OsaurusAI for Windows (currently in beta) and have been making our own models tuned for specific tasks and our harness. (huggingface.co/OsaurusAI) How can we work together to make sure RTX Spark users have the best local AI experience possible?
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Local AI is underrated
Osaurus for Windows is fully native, built from ground up for best local AI experience.
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Nikita Bier
@nikitabierOct 16
Sometimes a demo is simply to remind the world that your competition has no desire to dream -- and no ability to evolve.
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Osaurus for Windows has built-in privacy controls to protect your sensitive information. Watch an accountant’s workflow: Claude Sonnet 5.5 drafts a letter to the IRS while the client’s name, SSN, and other sensitive details never leave the PC.
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A therapist asked for a review of three patient records. LFM2.5-24B-A2B read every file, tracked PHQ-9 and GAD-7 scores, flagged what's unresolved, wrote the questions for next session. 11 steps. Under 2 minutes. Fully offline. Zero data leaves the Mac.
Today we release 𝙻𝙵𝙼𝟸.𝟻-𝟸𝟺𝙱-𝙰𝟸𝙱, the largest 𝙻𝙵𝙼𝟸.𝟻 family member. It is an efficient local model for laptops and PCs to work through multi-step tasks inside popular agent harnesses. > 24B total parameters, 2B active per token > Context expanded to 131K tokens > A 128K-token vocabulary > 33T pretraining tokens > It is a reasoning model > Very easy to fine-tune and customize > Performs competitively with Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, a model with ~50% more total and active parameters, on agentic and tool-use tasks. > Open base and post-trained weights on @huggingface 🤗 1/
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Your Mac just built a game without asking the internet. One prompt. A plan. Three files. Playable Tetris with a ghost piece and hold queue. Pure Swift. No Python. Nothing left the machine. MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B, fully offline in Osaurus.
🚀 Introducing MiniCPM-V 4.7, our new open-source MLLM series! Advancing the Performance–Efficiency Pareto Frontier. It brings strong multimodal capabilities to iOS and Android devices with extreme efficiency. Two new models: 🔹 MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B — Bring SOTA performance to local devices with newly introduced LES (Lookahead Expert Scheduling) technique, a new milestone of on-device multimodal AI. 🔹 MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B — Lightweight, efficient multimodal AI. Easier to deploy. ⚡ What's new? SOTA performance: Competitive results across 34 benchmarks spanning multimodal understanding, STEM reasoning, OCR and long-video comprehension. Fast on-device inference: LES predicts and preloads expert weights to reduce inference stalls, boosting 5× speedup on iPad Pro M4 (16GB) with byte-for-byte identical outputs. It enables MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B to achieve 17+ tokens/s on iPad Pro M4 (16GB) and 13+ tokens/s on iPhone 17 Pro Max, while costing only 3GB memory 🤯 Efficient visual processing: 4× and 16× hybrid visual token compression. Even at 16× compression, 35B-A3B scores 90.4 on OCRBench, 5.2 points ahead of Qwen3.6 35B-A3B. Easier customization: We introduce Self-Replay Fine-Tuning, a simple way to customize new target capabilities at low cost while maintaining general performance. Broad hardware support: Day-0 adaptations for Apple, Intel, AMD, Arm and Rockchip, with many more platforms supported through FlagOS! Download, deploy, and build something we haven't imagined yet. 👀👇 🔗 GitHub: github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM-V 🤗 Hugging Face: huggingface.co/collections/o…
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WebBrain now runs on your Mac's own models. Osaurus serves them. A few clicks to connect.
🧠 WebBrain 🤝 Osaurus 🦖 Connect your local models running on Osaurus (MLX / local OpenAI-compatible endpoints) directly to WebBrain in just a few clicks. Full walkthrough ⬇️
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I'm not playing around. Since releasing the beta yesterday, I've already added: - Persistent memory - Agent sandboxes (using WSL Containers) - Automations (folder watchers, scheduled tasks) - Bug fixes And there's lots more coming.
Osaurus Beta for Windows has support for WSL Containers on day one of its GA. Watch a local model safely experiment with python within a sandbox to generate a Mandelbrot fractal. Fully native, built for Windows with WinUI, C#, and .NET 10 xitter.cf/windowsblog/status/210…
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Osaurus Beta for Windows has support for WSL Containers on day one of its GA. Watch a local model safely experiment with python within a sandbox to generate a Mandelbrot fractal. Fully native, built for Windows with WinUI, C#, and .NET 10 xitter.cf/windowsblog/status/210…
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