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OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem

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Re: OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem

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Post by 3s »

girvo wrote: post #5

I don’t get it. It says nothing leaves your computer, but it’s sending things to OpenRouter, not running models locally. Perhaps I am dumb (and I always feel dumb after reading an AI generated README for yet another AI tool Tbf)

Yes it appears your personal data IS being sent to open router and the model provider here. The problem I think is that a lot of people (especially in the openclaw community) mistake “I run it on my mac mini” to mean their data is private. Meanwhile all data is being shipped off for training to anthropic via openrouter and both of those parties see everything.

I guess you could theoretically plug in a local model here but of course the readme should be more precise here when talking about privacy

Re: OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem

#12

Post by SomaticPirate »

Not to be too conspiratorial here but since the founder of OpenClaw was snatched up, there seems to be a rush of “open source” AI projects desperately bidding to be alternatives. Which can generate huge returns if one of the major players decides that “they also need a cowork-style product”

So its uniquely viable to be a sellout here and attempt to clone a major lab’s attempt on the off-chance you get acquired later

Re: OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem

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Post by raincole »

girvo wrote: post #5

I don’t get it. It says nothing leaves your computer, but it’s sending things to OpenRouter, not running models locally. Perhaps I am dumb (and I always feel dumb after reading an AI generated README for yet another AI tool Tbf)

> run locally via Ollama

Are you saying this part is a lie?

Re: OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem

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Post by teleforce »

I've got the strong feeling that AI model and agent requires different operating system (OS) paradigm that's data centric rather than file-system for more efficient, effective and trustworthy operations. This new OS should work seamlessly with data natively across different processors for examples CPU, GPU, TPU, NPU, accelarators, etc.

For working example, please check TabulaROSA (Tabular Operating System Architecture) proposed by the MIT team. Instead of normal OS system call, it utilizes data based operations with D4M that can work mathematically via associative array with structured or non-structered data [1],[2].

With the advent of new CPU acceleration with fully homomorphic encryption as demonstrated by Intel, the AI model and agent can even analyze the data without even decrypting them [3],[4].

[1] TabulaROSA: Tabular Operating System Architecture for Massively Parallel Heterogeneous Compute Engines

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/126114

[2] D4M: Dynamic Distributed Dimensional Data Model:

https://d4m.mit.edu/

[3] Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data (121 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47322815

[4] Intel Demos Chip to Compute With Encrypted Data: Fully homomorphic encryption chip speeds operations 5,000-fold:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fhe-intel

Re: OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem

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Post by jstummbillig »

girvo wrote: post #5

I don’t get it. It says nothing leaves your computer, but it’s sending things to OpenRouter, not running models locally. Perhaps I am dumb (and I always feel dumb after reading an AI generated README for yet another AI tool Tbf)

> It says nothing leaves your computer

Where does it say that?

It sends to OpenRouter if you chose to use OpenRouter. Can use Ollama. Idk how to get more local than that? Any tool will be non-local, when you do something explicitly non-local.

Re: OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem

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Post by hrmtst93837 »

3s wrote: post #11
girvo wrote: post #5

I don’t get it. It says nothing leaves your computer, but it’s sending things to OpenRouter, not running models locally. Perhaps I am dumb (and I always feel dumb after reading an AI generated README for yet another AI tool Tbf)

Yes it appears your personal data IS being sent to open router and the model provider here. The problem I think is that a lot of people (especially in the openclaw community) mistake “I run it on my mac mini” to mean their data is private. Meanwhile all data is being shipped off for training to anthropic via openrouter and both of those parties see everything. I guess you could theoretically plug in a local model her…

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Re: OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem

#20

Post by coldtrait »

Why did the OP make a comment about the project like he was someone else?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47560380#47560381

When it's clear he is one of the major contributors to the project?

https://github.com/openyak/desktop/graphs/contributors

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