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The Complete Local AI System with A Single NPM Install!

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  • Demonstrates a full local AI stack (Whisper for speech-to-text, embeddings for retrieval, Qwen for answer generation, plus a text-to-speech model) running behind a single npm install, with no API key, cloud dependency, or network calls.
  • Built on QVAC, Tether’s open-source local AI platform (Apache 2.0), which exposes the same API for RAG, translation, OCR, image generation, and on-device fine-tuning, and runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.
  • Every model in the demo is small enough to run on an ordinary laptop — a concrete marker of local-model viability rather than a cloud-dependent demo.
  • Sponsored by QVAC (disclosed); takeaway: for privacy-sensitive or offline use cases, a single npm install can now cover a full multi-modal local stack without cloud dependency.