Zeno
The local AI workspace that learns your work. It reads your files, drafts and edits alongside you, and runs entirely on your Mac.
Read the Icosa ManifestoFor macOS on Apple silicon
18 GB download. Have about 45 GB of disk free during setup, 25 GB after.
By downloading you agree to the Terms of Use
On Apple Silicon. Generation speed depends on your Mac's memory and the apps you have open.
The innovation
A frontier-style AI workspace, compressed into an app on your laptop.
Zeno's breakthrough is fitting the whole system on one machine. A 35B-parameter model ships inside the download, pruned and tuned by Icosa until it runs on a regular MacBook, and the workspace around it is engineered so that a small local model works the way you expect a frontier one to: reading files, editing documents, and carrying long agent tasks without losing the thread.
Everything happens on that one machine: reading contracts, editing spreadsheets, refactoring code, agent tasks that run as long as the work requires. No cloud service sits in the loop, so nothing is transmitted, metered, or queued.
Behind the model sits Icosa's research: Combinatorial Reasoning, our physics-based optimization method developed with NASA and backed by the NSF, is part of how we train and select what goes into the app. But the thing you use every day is not a reasoning technique.
It is Zeno: a private workspace where the model, your files, and your work history live together on hardware you own, offline, with nothing metered.
Runs on your Mac
Your documents, your code, your terminology. Everything stays on the machine in front of you, and Zeno keeps working with the network off.
No tokens, no limits
The model ships inside the app. There is no allowance to run down and no per-token bill, so the size of the job is up to you.
Learns your work
Point Zeno at your files and it adapts to how your team actually works. Nothing to configure, and no model to pick.
Feedback
We read everything.
Found a bug, hit a wall, or want Zeno to do something it does not do yet? Tell us and we will get back to you. Or come find us in the community Discord.
Icosa Computing
The Icosa Manifesto
Intelligence is arguably the most important commodity in the world.
It comes from two things: knowledge, and processing.
Processing is something we all have access to, thanks to years of evolution. It weighs roughly 1.3 kilos (3lbs) and sits in our heads.
Knowledge comes from education, and it unfortunately has been one of the biggest drivers of the wealth gap throughout history.
Things are changing.
With the internet, knowledge became ubiquitous. You can learn the type of instrument Einstein played in milliseconds. Thousands of videos online teach quantum mechanics.
With large language models, knowledge became learnable, efficiently. Formulate a question, and get it spoonfed to you with tokens, in your language of choice.
With AI agents, knowledge became actionable. You have a basketball game idea? Have your AI code it for you, build the pitch deck, and search online on how to distribute your game.
Let's go back to my first sentence. A word there requires some attention. “Commodity.” Yes indeed, intelligence is a commodity. But it should not be “commoditized.”
Zeno is an attempt to enhance human creation. Humans were endowed with intelligence through millions of years of trial and error, but now we have created systems that can give our brains external knowledge storage, and an external processor. And you don't need thousands of GPUs running on processor farms that require a ton of energy and a ton of water.
Zeno runs on your laptop.
And it's completely private. It's not that we don't look at your data. We physically can't. Turn off the wifi and use it, if you'd like.
And it's personal. It's your AI. It complements your brain. Similar to how your neurons change as you learn, the model learns from you. Model weights change as you use it more.
We are still early. We fit a 35B parameter model on a regular MacBook, so Zeno might feel slow at first. But we will learn from you as you give feedback, and your AI model will learn from you. It will get smarter and faster. We think we can eventually beat closed-source hosted models.
The turtle will beat the hare.
Zeno is yours. Create freely.
Mert Esencan
CEO, Icosa Computing