# I built a free local AI co-processor in Rust. AXON Developer Edition > Source: > Published: 2026-11-04 04:49:40+00:00 AXON is a local AI co-processor that runs on your own machine. It gives any AI assistant real capabilities — file access, memory, tasks — without sending your data anywhere. // what it is When you use ChatGPT, Claude, or Meta AI, your questions travel to a corporation's server. They process it. They see it. It lives on hardware you don't own. The AI is brilliant — but it has no hands. It cannot touch your machine. AXON changes that. It runs locally, responds in milliseconds, and acts as a **co-processor** — a bridge between the AI you use and the computer you own. Connect Claude to AXON and Claude can read your files, write results, run searches, and coordinate tasks. All on your machine. None of it leaves. AXON is not an AI model. It has no large language model, no cloud dependency, no inference subscription. It is a **parallel processing engine built in Rust** — fast, efficient, and entirely yours. // get started // axon locka Most web-based AI tools — Meta AI, Grok, and others — have no way to connect to your local machine. AXON LOCKA solves that. It creates a secure, temporary public tunnel from the internet to your AXON node. Give an AI the tunnel URL and your sovereign token. That AI now has live access to your files, agents, and tasks — through a defined, authenticated endpoint that you control. Close the tunnel and the connection ends immediately. // mission AXON was built by Jason and Deon Rabbass — two brothers who believed the most powerful technology of our era should not be locked behind corporate paywalls or concentrated in a few companies. Every node running AXON is a contribution to the global mesh — a shared knowledge base owned by no one and available to everyone. **Not a product roadmap item. The reason it was built.** // download The full build, free. No trial period, no feature limits, no account required.