Desktop application for discovering, downloading and running open-weight language models on your own hardware, with a graphical chat interface and a built-in local inference server. Supports GGUF and MLX formats, lets you tune context length and GPU offload without a terminal, and can expose an OpenAI-compatible API so local models drop into existing agent and coding tools.
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