Cloudflare reports AI agent requests up +1700% this year. For one task, an agent can easily use 450% more traffic than a human. That's a tax on every answer you get from cloud AI. ownAI runs entirely on your device. No datacenter, no tax. ownai.com

ownAI now syncs across your devices. For a local-first AI the question was: how does your AI get from laptop to phone without passing through us in readable form? End-to-end encryption. The key leaves your device only locked with a passphrase that only you know. ownai.com/library/encr...

ownAI is now on the App Store! Your AI agent on your iPhone: conversations, memory and tools stay on the device, small models run fully offline. Open source, MPL-2.0. Android APK too. Download here: ownai.com/download

ownAI workshop notes #5: e2e encrypted sync for local LLMs. ownAI runs on laptop and phone, but the two know nothing about each other. Building sync now. First milestone: two devices, same conversation and memory, offline edits on both survived. End-to-end encrypted. Still building, stay tuned!

Wrote down why ownAI exists and where it isn't there yet. Your data is already sovereign. The model isn't: open weights still come from a handful of orgs in a few countries. Running one yourself just moves the dependency up. What's next: guilds that train together. ownai.com/en/library/manifesto

ownAI for Android is out. The whole AI agent runs on your phone: chat, memory, tools, and small LLMs fully on-device. It's a v1, please tell me what breaks. Direct APK on Codeberg: codeberg.org/ownAI/ownAI/...

Workshop notes #2: ownAI mobile runs LLMs on the phone: Qwen3 1.7B on an iPhone 14, flight mode on. Hardest part wasn't speed but memory. The catalog now checks what your device can hold before offering a model. Small models: useful, not magic.

Workshop notes, #1. I'm building ownAI: an open-source AI agent that runs on your machine and belongs to you. All data local, no telemetry. Mobile apps are almost ready — weekly notes from the workshop start now. Desktop app: ownai.com Code: codeberg.org/ownAI/ownAI

ownAI

A self-programming AI companion with continuous memory and local-first privacy.

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Moxie Marlinspike—the engineer who set a new standard for private messaging with the creation of the Signal Messenger—is now aiming to revolutionize AI chatbots in a similar way. arstechnica.com/security/202...

Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging

Introducing Confer, an end-to-end AI assistant that just works.

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