@om_patel5: THIS GUY BUILT A FREE AI ASSISTANT THAT FLOATS ON YOUR MACOS DESKTOP AND RUNS COMPLETELY LOCALLY no API keys, no subscr…

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A developer created a free, open-source AI assistant that floats on macOS desktop, runs entirely locally using models like Gemma and Qwen via Ollama, with no API keys or subscriptions, ensuring data privacy and offline capability.

THIS GUY BUILT A FREE AI ASSISTANT THAT FLOATS ON YOUR MACOS DESKTOP AND RUNS COMPLETELY LOCALLY no API keys, no subscriptions, no cloud, and nothing leaves your machine it runs local models like gemma and qwen through ollama right on your mac the assistant floats on top of whatever you're working on so you can ask it questions without switching apps or opening a browser completely free and open source on github the best part is zero dependency on any AI company. no anthropic billing, no openai rate limits, and no monthly subscriptions that keep going up you own the model and the data, and it also runs whether you have internet or not you can even swap in different models. gemma for general use, qwen 3 1.7B for lighter resource usage on older macs a stealth mode is being developed so it doesn't show during screen recordings (which tells you exactly what people plan to use this for lol) the local AI movement keeps growing and tools like this are why
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