Private AI that runs on your PC.

 By default, no. On the AI Desk and AI Book, Falcon Terminal and the model both run on the machine in front of you, and no connection is needed to get an answer. You can unplug the network cable and keep working. With the Enclave, Falcon Terminal runs on your computer and the model runs on the Enclave, so the question travels across your own network and no further.

Two features can reach out, and both ship switched off behind a single toggle: pulling a model update, and a research lookup. The lookup sends the question you typed to a search service. It does not send your files or your chat history. If you would rather have it enforced in hardware than trusted to software, ask us to block the AI’s network access at your network firewall.

Breaches have happened, but they’re the least interesting part of the answer. The things that move your data usually don’t involve an attacker at all: a court order, a contractor the vendor hired, a retention policy that outlives your delete button, a change of ownership, and even company policy. Those are ordinary business events, and the vendors’ own published policies often describe them. What a private system removes isn’t the chance of a break-in. It’s the fact that somebody else is holding a copy to begin with.

For a lot of what you would ask an AI, you should. It is inexpensive and it works well, and we are not going to argue otherwise.

The question is what you are comfortable sending. Explaining a butterfly spread: send it. Uploading your account statement so it can tell you where you are over-extended, or your unpublished strategy so it can debug it? Probably not, these should gives you pause. These machines are for the second category, and for the fact that you own it outright instead of renting and depending on access to someone else’s.

No, it would be silly to pretend otherwise. The frontier cloud models are ahead of anything that runs on a desk, and more accurately, they have millions of dollars worth of pooled compute. 

What runs on your Falcon is capable for the work that matters: reviewing a year of trades, explaining a spread, drafting and refining an indicator, or reading a statement back to you in plain English. The case for running it centers around what you can safely hand it, your data like account statements, without thinking twice about where they end up. Most of our traders end up using both, and staying deliberate about which questions go where.

On raw infrastructure, often yes. Their buildings have security teams; yours is a computer in your office. 

That is not the comparison that matters however. A datacenter protects the data it holds; it does not stop the data from being held, or in many cases given away. What owning changes is how many parties are involved: no vendor, no analytics supplier, no third-party custodian, and nobody to serve an overreaching subpoena on except you. Nearly half of all breaches now arrive through somebody’s third party, an entire category of risk that simply does not exist when the file never leaves your desk.

No. The AI Desk and AI Book arrive with Falcon Terminal installed, tuned to the machine, with a model already loaded. With the Enclave, Falcon Terminal installs on the computer you already use, one download, because the hard part is already done on the box. There’s no command line, no account to create, and nothing to configure. You open the tool and hand it a file.

The Enclave is the clean answer: it’s a separate machine, so the AI work never touches your trading computer. Nothing is shared, and there’s nothing to balance. That’s the whole reason it exists.

On the AI Desk, up to three monitors run off the processor’s built-in graphics while the AI runs on the graphics card, so the chip doing AI work isn’t the one drawing your charts. Past three, the card starts driving displays too, and the two jobs share it. A heavy AI request during a busy session can show up in your charts.

The AI Book has one GPU doing both jobs from the start. A large AI request while a full chart layout is running can show up as a slower chart.

If you run a big wall and you want the AI working hard at the same time, pair whichever machine you have with an Enclave.

You load it, if you want it. New models come out constantly and they run on the same hardware; we evaluate the ones worth caring about against the work traders actually do, and release the ones that earn it for your machine.

Nothing installs itself and nothing changes underneath you, which is the opposite of the cloud problem, where the vendor can retire the model you had gotten used to, or change how it works on even a daily basis, with or without notice. These changes can affect your work or results overnight.