Discover QVAC

What is QVAC?

QVAC is an open-source platform for local-first, peer-to-peer AI.

Key features

Local-first: load AI models and perform inference in your own machine. No third-party APIs, SaaS, or cloud involved.
P2P: unstoppable internet systems; like Torrent, IPFS, and blockchain network, but for AI.
Open source: free to use and modify; build on top, contribute back, be part of our community.

QVAC provides

JS/TS SDK: for developers to build AI applications and systems.
Flagship applications: for end users, to showcase QVAC capabilities.
Research outputs: for researchers to advance the state of the art in AI.

QVAC is Tether’s answer to the centralized AI by ensuring it's not tied to massive data centers in the hands of a few but is free to run on everyone’s devices, without a central point of failure or without arbitrary censorship.

We do so by enabling devices to run local AI models and ensuring connectivity only happens peer-to-peer, through Holepunch technology. We do so by building an SDK for developers, and flagship end-user applications around it, to showcase the capabilities of our technology to a wider audience.

Key differentiators

Unified approach: other local AI solutions like Llama.rn, Cactus, and react-native-executorch each solve parts of the puzzle, but none offer a unified approach like QVAC — one single API surface, feature-complete, and consistent behavior across runtime environments and platforms.
Out-of-the-box P2P: share and run AI models with peers, with no extra setup or prior knowledge required.

How QVAC?

QVAC's key features are enabled by the following technologies and standards:

Local AI: leverages state-of-the-art open-source edge AI engines and models (e.g., GGML and ONNX).
P2P: built on Holepunch technology.
Cross-platform: runs on Bare by Holepunch, a lightweight, cross-platform JavaScript runtime.
OSS: released under Apache license.