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I built a fully local AI assistant at 16 — no cloud, no API keys, runs on your GPU (opens in new tab)

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I'm 16, from Pune, India. For the past couple of years I've been building O-AI — a fully local AI desktop assistant. No cloud. No API keys. No data leaving your machine. Everything runs on your own GPU. Why I built it Every AI assistant I tried sent data somewhere. ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini — all cloud. I wanted something that felt like JARVIS from Iron Man: smart, fast, personal, and private. So I built it from scratch. What O-AI can do Core engine: Runs LLMs fully on-device via llama.cpp / O...

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