About HiveBear

Your laptop can’t run a 70B model alone. A few machines together can.

The idea

Most of the world’s compute sits idle. Meanwhile the models worth running keep outgrowing the machines most people own, and the usual answer is to rent someone else’s GPU and send your prompts to it.

HiveBear takes the other route. Devices pool spare capacity into a peer-to-peer mesh, a model’s layers are split across peers, and activations are passed between them. Every device that joins makes the network able to run something bigger.

How it works

Run locally first

HiveBear profiles your hardware and runs what fits on your own machine, with llama.cpp, Candle, ONNX or MLX.

Reach past your machine

When a model is too large, its layers are distributed across mesh peers and the work is shared.

Stay in control

Chat history never leaves your device. Contributing is optional, and you choose when it runs.

Open source

The client, the mesh, and the CLI are MIT-licensed and developed in the open. Reading the code is the best way to check that the privacy claims on this site are real.

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Who builds it

HiveBear is built by Beckham Labs LLC. It is early software: the local inference path is solid, and the distributed mesh is actively being built out. If something is broken, we would rather hear about it than have you work around it — open an issue.

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Free, open-source, self-hosted AI that actually fits your machine. A P2P mesh of neighbors pooling everyday hardware to run big local AI models together. Written in Rust, powered by the hive.

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