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Building Mintu: A Privacy-First Desktop AI Companion with Tauri 2, Rust, and Local LLMs (v0.2.1 Release)

Most desktop AI tools today suffer from two fundamental problems: they rely entirely on remote cloud APIs—raising serious privacy concerns—and they require constant context-switching between separate application windows. To address both issues, I built Mintu, an open-source, local-first desktop com…

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  1. 2026-11-01 19:49 · DEV Community — AI
    Building Mintu: A Privacy-First Desktop AI Companion with Tauri 2, Rust, and Local LLMs (v0.2.1 Release)

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