QVAC: The AI That Doesn’t Snoop on Your Cat Videos

Well, butter my motherboard and call me impressed! Tether’s über-boffin Paolo Ardoino has whipped up a little something called QVAC, an AI assistant that’s more private than a wizard’s spellbook. Unlike those cloud-dwelling, data-gobbling monstrosities, this one lives right on your own device, probably munching on crumbs from your last biscuit. Using the Model Context Protocol (or MCP, as the cool kids call it), QVAC can juggle more skills than a circus performer on a unicycle, all while running on a laptop GPU that’s seen better days.

Imagine it: creating assignments, sorting spreadsheets, and probably judging your taste in music-all without sending your data on a jolly holiday to the cloud. Privacy? Oh, it’s got more privacy than a dwarf with a locked diary. And because Tether’s feeling generous (or perhaps just showing off), they’re planning to open-source this marvel. Developers, grab your keyboards-it’s time to tinker with the future, one local inference at a time. Just don’t blame QVAC if it can’t fix your life choices.

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QVAC in action, probably not judging you... much.

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2026-02-12 17:35