HART OS - Open-source AI-native OS for local-first agentic runtime
Show HN: HART OS – an open-source AI OS built so frontier AI needs no datacenter
HART OS is an open-source, AI-native operating system designed to run frontier AI models directly on local devices, eliminating the need for datacenters. It transforms inference into a core system service accessible via an OpenAI-compatible API, enabling seamless operation across laptops, servers, and embodied AI robots. Featuring a federated peer-to-peer architecture and a self-improving auto-evolve loop, HART OS allows applications to dynamically access local LLMs, vision, and speech capabilities without managing API keys or model downloads. This local-first approach ensures privacy while providing a unified runtime that adapts to hardware constraints and learns from user interactions.
AI-native means the OS adapts to the machine, not the other way around. On each device it probes what the hardware can actually do, serves LLM, vision, and speech to every app over the Model Bus, and lets the on-device model compose the interface and learn each task once so it can replay it later.