FriedrichAI: Offline AI

FriedrichAI is a fully offline AI assistant distributed through Steam that flips the default assumption of modern AI: instead of sending every prompt to a hosted frontier model, it runs entirely on your own hardware with no internet connection, account, or API key required. Once installed, FriedrichAI provides a persistent memory system so conversations and context carry across sessions, context-aware responses that adapt to how you actually work, and a zero-setup launch flow — the same one-click install pattern Steam users already expect. Because nothing is transmitted, it is positioned for users who care about privacy by construction (researchers handling sensitive material, professionals under NDA, anyone working on devices without reliable connectivity) rather than privacy by policy. The Steam distribution channel also means automatic updates, familiar payment, and a runtime that treats the AI assistant like any other local application instead of a cloud service.