QVAC

Infinite intelligence. Local. Any Hardware. Peer-to-Peer Hyper Swarm. No cloud. No compromise.
QVAC is the decentralized AI platform for humans and machines.

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Developers can build BotPsy into assistants that act for people while their data, passwords and decisions stay on their own devices.

The weights are open under Apache 2.0, in bf16, Q8 and Q4_K_M (16, 8 and 4 bits respectively), as safetensors and GGUF for llama.cpp. Thanks to @Alibaba_Qwen, whose Qwen3.5-0.8B serves as our base model.

Models: https://t.co/vGUHsJ6MWm
How we built it: https://t.co/Ez5gzY0PPh

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To act for you, an AI agent has to read your email, calendar, messages and files. It ends up knowing more about your life than most of your friends, so you should get to choose where it runs.

Today we're releasing QVAC BotPsy, a 0.8B model that sets alarms, moves meetings and answers messages by calling the right tool. It's small enough to run on your phone, which is where an agent that knows that much should live.

Models: https://t.co/vGUHsJ6MWm

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BotPsy needs 68% fewer reasoning tokens than the model it was built from to answer hard science questions correctly, and it gets more of them right. On a phone, every token it skips saves you time.

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Three more projects got a mention from the judges:

- ScreenGuard covers card numbers, phone numbers and other personal data on screen while a student or a professor presents, using QVAC OCR on the laptop
https://t.co/TgDIu4pQYT

- Plate Reader checks car plates against a parking permit register from the camera of Meta Ray-Ban glasses, with QVAC object detection, so police officers could do it from AR glasses
https://t.co/MWSo5n7Rvz

- FOBE Care Plan AI transcribes and translates family visits on a charity's office PC and drafts the care plan, so the family worker can focus on the family instead of taking notes. The charity, Friends of Bright Eyes, supports disabled children in London
https://t.co/4m6MEfvXTq

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The winners of the Tether challenge at Great Uni Hack 2026 are announced.

Tether sponsored a challenge at this one-day student hackathon at the University of Manchester: solve an everyday problem for your university or local community, with AI that runs fully on device with QVAC and devices that connect peer to peer with @Pears_p2p.

Here they are.

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Winner: Campfire, a social app for students who find it hard to meet people on campus. They meet as avatars, and QVAC on the phone transcribes spoken answers, writes profiles, matches students, translates chats and screens incoming messages. The phones connect directly over Pears, with no server.
https://t.co/BlgNbvRQMH

Second place: DeadZone, a revision app for lecture halls with no connection, like every one in the building where the hackathon took place. It turns lecture notes into quizzes you answer by typing or speaking, with the AI running on the laptop, and classmates on the same Wi-Fi can edit shared notes without internet.
https://t.co/LLTNquvQ6R

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Do most people really need frontier AI?

"The majority of the people in the world don't need their AI models solving super complex mathematical problems."

@paoloardoino, CEO of Tether

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Install Keet from https://t.co/eqSc5iyAro, then open this link, or scan the QR code:

keet://chat/nfo61f4e6zc5t1ifncyh9yp7s5eynbruz5bs95oc5ufn3e79entmhix74miigc8iz9iawfrb7pzk3am8eotxw8wat7554etbn7d6j4ho84b1zqnb63z7hxq1ubt5w4wi4kpq3mdgpijcnaifnhm7sy4cfxqqoyedpnb5qg1majcggy4s9s91fgtg3khgw

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If you're into local AI or QVAC, join our room on @keet_io and talk to the team.

Ask us anything, swap tips on running AI on your devices, and share what you're working on.

Keet is a peer-to-peer messenger. Chats are end-to-end encrypted, and you sign up without a phone number.

[Paolo Ardoino 🤖 @paoloardoino]

To watch 🤖

@tether VisionPsy model in real-life action powering 100% local (and private) vision skills on @G_Bionics robots.

[Paolo Ardoino 🤖 @paoloardoino]

One of the classic questions: does size matter? ☺️

https://t.co/9h5l5eTG09

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All the projects from the hackathon are on DoraHacks:
https://t.co/t4Z6ulXIig

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Here are the winners of AI Yako, the one-week QVAC hackathon we ran with Node NBO in Nairobi. Three projects share the 3,500 USDt prize pool.

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The AI Yako hackathon kicks off this Saturday, 24 October, at Node NBO in Nairobi, and demo day is 31 October.

Teams build AI that runs on their own device with QVAC, on three tracks: offline AI apps, moving a cloud product onto the device, and on-device agentic finance with WDK. Projects are judged with the internet switched off.

Register here: https://t.co/RS6hWZ53Rk

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Sauti Pesa by @swiftbotlab wins the Agentic finance with WDK track and 400 USDt.

It runs on QVAC and @WDK_tether, in Swahili and English: you review and confirm a payment, the app signs it offline, and it is broadcast once you connect.

https://t.co/yuQwDLPenN