Who founded Navo AI, what it does, and how it keeps everything private and offline. Answers to the most common questions about Navo AI.
Navo AI is a private, offline AI assistant that runs entirely on your device, inside your browser. It uses WebGPU (or a WASM fallback on unsupported devices) to run open language models locally, so nothing you type is ever sent to a server.
Navo AI was founded by Benedict Patrick and Saidharshan.
Yes. Navo AI is free to use and does not require a signup. There is no server-side inference, so there is nothing to pay for on the back end either.
Yes. After a model is downloaded once, Navo AI keeps working with no internet connection at all, since every chat response is generated on your own device.
Navo AI's Model Hub lets you download and switch between open models from Meta (Llama), Google (Gemma), Alibaba (Qwen), Microsoft (Phi), Mistral AI, Hugging Face (SmolLM2), and DeepSeek.
Yes. Navo AI runs entirely on-device: chat messages, notes, and downloaded models all stay in your browser and are never uploaded anywhere.
Most AI chatbots send every message to a company's server to generate a reply. Navo AI runs the entire model on your own device instead, so it keeps working with no internet connection, costs nothing per message, and never transmits what you type anywhere.
Yes. Navo AI works in any modern mobile browser and can be installed to your phone's home screen as a Progressive Web App for a full screen experience that feels like a native app.