Introducing GabForge AI: Run LLMs Locally, Scale to Cloud

Today we are thrilled to announce GabForge AI — a complete, open-source AI development platform designed from the ground up with a local-first philosophy. Whether you are a solo developer experimenting with the latest open-weight models or a team shipping AI-powered products at scale, GabForge AI meets you exactly where you are.

At the heart of GabForge AI is a built-in inference engine powered by llama.cpp, compiled with Vulkan GPU acceleration. You can download any GGUF-format model once and run it entirely on your own hardware — no API keys, no rate limits, no data leaving your machine. The GabForge Model Manager handles downloading, versioning, and quantization selection automatically, so you spend time building, not configuring.

When your workload outgrows local compute, GabForge AI connects to our cloud gateway which proxies requests to dozens of hosted models from leading providers. The same OpenAI-compatible API surface works for both local and cloud inference, meaning zero code changes when you switch. You pick the right model for the right task — fast local models for iteration, frontier cloud models for production.

GabForge AI ships as part of the broader GabForge ecosystem: a VS Code-forked IDE with multi-agent AI assistance, a dedicated GabForge OS optimised for AI workloads, and a Creative Suite for media production. Everything is open-source under Apache 2.0 or MIT. We believe AI development tools should be accessible, auditable, and free from vendor lock-in. Today is just the beginning.