· Research framework
AI research lab
Puma AI Private local inference, agent harnesses, and memory store.
We study how useful AI can run closer to the user.
Product
The Puma AI app
A local alternative to ChatGPT and Muse, coming to iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux. Conversations, memory, and agents stay closer to you — not on someone else’s servers.
- iOS
- Android
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Research notes
Methods for practical AI research
· Evaluation method
How to evaluate an AI agent harness
Read the method· Testbed design
Interactive environments as agent testbeds
Read the proposalBacked by builders
Angel and pre-seed support from leaders in crypto and AI.
- Stefan Thomas creator of Interledger, BitcoinJS
- Chris Larsen founder of Ripple
- Anatoly Yakovenko founder of Solana
- Illia Polosukhin founder of NEAR; co-author of “Attention is all you need”
- Sridhar Ramaswamy CEO of Snowflake; founder of Neeva
- Don Ho founder of Quantstamp, Orange DAO
- Kartik Talwar founder of ETHGlobal, A.Capital
- Jason Warner founder of poolside.ai; former CTO of GitHub
- Oleksandr Maksymets AI Research at Meta Superintelligence Labs
- Evil Rabbit founding designer & brand architect at Vercel
- and many others
Work with us
Help make local AI practical
We are interested in engineers and researchers who care about private inference, reliable agent systems, and unusually good test environments.