Osaurus

This is what native feels like. No Electron. No Python runtime. Just Swift on Apple Silicon.

@icefrog_sol @TechCrunch Local-first everything, inference is local/cloud agnostic. There's no backend, everything is running locally.

@TechCrunch Local-first or cloud-first?

Osaurus brings both local and cloud AI models to your Mac techcrunch.com/2026/05/15/osa…

@PsudoMike @TechCrunch You can choose both as default. Osaurus also ships with it's own router, which is hosted locally

@TechCrunch The real question is the routing logic. Most local plus cloud apps default to cloud and use local as fallback. Flipping that default changes battery and latency assumptions overnight. Curious which way Osaurus leans.

Models get commoditized. The harness compounds. Thanks @SarahPerezTC for the writeup.

@fhreire Do you like it?

@OsaurusAI wait. when did we change the dinosaur???

github.com/osaurus-ai/osa… docs: github.com/osaurus-ai/osa…

Two new primitives in Osaurus: Encrypted SQLite per agent. Agent owns the schema and data. Self-scheduling. Agent picks when to call inference next. A daily tracker picks check-in time. A weekly report picks Friday.

The agent decides when to run. Told it to track my calories. It designed the schema, scheduled its own daily check-ins, logged the entry, built a dashboard. One sentence. Encrypted SQLite on my Mac.

🧵 1/4 You can run Hindsight (an AI memory layer) entirely locally — no cloud LLM required. Here's how to wire it up with @OsaurusAI, a local OpenAI-compatible model server. 🔒

If you want to beat Claude at Legal AI, make your SaaS work on local AI inference. Client's data then never leaves their control. I told @MaxJunestrand to create a "Legora Server" earlier this year. Offline = inevitable. Happy to advise anyone on how to do it.

@spectra_tek 🔥🔥

@OsaurusAI Insane 🔥🔥🔥

"can you order me a box of tissues from amazon?" Grok 4.3 did the rest.

@DustdrifterX 😅

@OsaurusAI Grok = 🤢

@v0idm4in No it doesn’t. Model only knows about the browser state and everything is controlled and held within your local machine. It only exposes the interface which the model uses to work with the secure session. Nothing leaves your device without your consent

@OsaurusAI does the browser session is sent to the model?

@v0idm4in Once it's secured the session, it no longer needs to log in again. I had it for the demo but it remembers the browser sessions for subsequent sessions (and background tasks!)

@v0idm4in I typed it myself. Model invoked the browser for me to create the secure session, which model used in the background to place the order on my behalf.

@InsiderPresider Sometimes you need those box of tissues when you make breakthroughs

@OsaurusAI It is impressive that the AI finally mastered the art of solving your minor inconvenience while the rest of the world waits for it to solve the big ones.

Open source. Runs on your Mac. github.com/osaurus-ai/osa… @xai @grok