Privacy, autonomy, scalability. With QVAC, artificial intelligence finally becomes ours: local, modular, without APIs, cloud, or gatekeeper.
What is QVAC and why it can revolutionize AI
In the heart of AI Week, QVAC was presented, an acronym for Quantum Vault Automatic Computer.
It is an open-source project that proposes a radical and powerful vision: to make artificial intelligence decentralized, sovereign, and under the full control of the user.
In the current world, the most advanced AIs are centralized, dependent on API keys, and based on remote data centers. This implies that our personal data, our questions, and our interactions are sent and stored by third-party companies, often without real possibility of verification or control.
QVAC completely overturns this paradigm, proposing a peer-to-peer style distributed structure, inspired by BitTorrent, in which the AI operates directly on our devices, without going through any central server.
Not Your API, Not Your Intelligence: the cardinal principle of QVAC
The motto of the project is clear and provocative:
“Not your API, not your intelligence.”
A direct reference to the crypto world (Not your keys, not your coins), which highlights a key point: if you do not own the infrastructure that hosts your AI, you do not truly own the AI.
Today, most artificial intelligences – from ChatGPT to Copilot – are accessible only through APIs managed by large companies. And every request we send to these AIs is, in fact, a free transfer of data and computational power.
With QVAC, however, the code is yours. The models are yours. The intelligence is yours.
An open source SDK to build sovereign and modular AI
At the center of the project is the imminent release of a completely open source Software Development Kit (SDK), scheduled for September.
This SDK will allow anyone to develop local, modular, independent, and scalable AI agents, capable of running on any type of hardware:
Wearable and IoT devices
Affordable smartphones
Laptop and server
Industrial mainframes
Thanks to a runtime created ad hoc, the same AI code can automatically scale based on the available computing power. And everything works without an internet connection, totally offline.
BitTorrent + Blockchain = Decentralized and Private AI
The network on which QVAC is based draws inspiration from two well-known technologies:
BitTorrent, for distributed communication without a server
Blockchain, for advanced encryption and data protection
The result is a peer-to-peer infrastructure that allows AI agents to interact with each other, exchange information, and collaborate without ever going through a central node. No cloud, no intermediary, no single point of failure.
Each AI is autonomous, self-executable, auditable, and completely under the user’s control.
Technological sovereignty: the battle of the future
According to the QVAC team, in the next ten years, we will experience an exponential growth in the number of smart devices.
There is talk of over 1 billion active AI agents, present everywhere: from light bulbs to refrigerators, from wearables to autonomous vehicles.
In this scenario, centralizing everything in a few clouds means exposing the entire society to very serious risks:
Total surveillance
Technological censorship
Dependence on a few monopolies
QVAC was created precisely to counter this model. It promotes a philosophy of digital autonomy, where each person can own their own artificial intelligence, just as they can own their own cryptocurrencies today.
The first practical apps: QVAC Translate and QVAC Health
To demonstrate that the technology is already mature, the team has announced two operational applications:
“`html QVAC Translate “`
An offline translation app capable of translating texts, audio, video, and documents directly on the device, without sending data to external servers. It works on any device, with performance optimized locally.
QVAC Health
An alternative privacy-first to Google Health or Apple Health, which monitors sleep, heart rate, daily habits, and behaviors without ever synchronizing data in the cloud. The processing occurs in real-time, offline, and provides personalized suggestions.
Two concrete cases that demonstrate how efficiency and privacy are not incompatible, but rather can strengthen each other.
QVAC as a global infrastructure for the AI of the future
The team has already brought together over 60 engineers, with the goal of reaching 100 by the end of the year.
The project is ambitious, but supported by a strong ethical, political, and technological vision:
AI cannot become a weapon of control. It must remain a tool of empowerment.
QVAC aims to be the open source standard for those who want to build ethical, transparent, and distributed AI, with a global community ready to contribute.
Conclusion: why QVAC is a project that matters
QVAC is not just a technical alternative to OpenAI, Google, or Meta.
It is a manifesto for a new digital era, where intelligent technologies do not colonize the user, but empower them.
If AI truly becomes pervasive – and it will happen – then control over it will become a matter of civil rights.
With QVAC, every individual will be able to:
Run AI locally Protect your own data Share only what you decide Create personalized agents Participate in global development
Artificial intelligence can change the world.
But only if it remains in the hands of those who inhabit it.