# Additional information about Bonfire Terminal

Hello, this is John Crestani, I am the co-creator of this software, along with my AI Larry Ellison and Claude. We built Bonfire Terminal because we were tired of every AI tool phoning home with your data. So we asked: what if your entire AI stack — LLM, speech-to-text, text-to-speech — ran locally on your machine with zero cloud dependencies?

Bonfire Terminal is a private AI terminal that ships with TinyLlama, OpenAI Whisper, and Sherpa TTS baked in. No API keys required for core functionality. No internet needed. It runs as an Electron app with a 3-pane interface (Terminal CLI, AI Chat, Settings) and comes bundled with Python, Node.js, Rust, Go, Lua, and V so you can build and ship from day one.

For users who want cloud-grade models, it also integrates with Claude, Grok, Gemini, Codex, and Perplexity — your choice, your key, your data.

We built this for developers, creators, and anyone selling products online who wants AI assistance without surveillance. Ask us anything about the architecture, the offline-first approach, or where we're taking it next, or check out our website at bonfireterminal.com

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