Nodeau

Turn a machine with an NVIDIA GPU into a private AI endpoint. An OpenAI-compatible API on 127.0.0.1 that nothing else on your network can reach.

Alpha software. One machine, one NVIDIA GPU, Ubuntu 24.04, x86_64. Please read the alpha notice before installing — it states exactly what is supported and what is not.

Install

curl -fsSL https://get.nodeau.ai/install.sh | bash

Prefer to read it first? Good instinct, and it is short enough to make that practical:

curl -fsSL https://get.nodeau.ai/install.sh -o install-nodeau.sh
less install-nodeau.sh
bash install-nodeau.sh

What you do not need

a GitHub account
a personal access token
a Nodeau account, licence key or invitation code
access to any source repository
root — the bootstrap installs one binary into a directory you own and refuses to run as root

Every download in the install path is public and anonymous: the CLI from this site, the container images from a public registry, and the model weights from their publisher. If anything asks you to authenticate in order to install Nodeau, that is a bug — please report it.

Then

nodeau doctor        # read-only: check this machine, change nothing
nodeau install       # set up the GPU stack, showing the plan first
nodeau quickstart    # download a model and get a local endpoint

Requirements

Operating system	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, native (not WSL)
Architecture	x86_64
GPU	NVIDIA, with a working driver already installed
Disk	~20 GB free
Privilege	`sudo` for the setup step only

Nodeau will not install, upgrade or change your NVIDIA driver, and it will not disable Secure Boot. Full detail in requirements.

Privacy

Nodeau sends nothing anywhere. No telemetry, no analytics, no licence check, no hardware inventory. Your prompts go to a model on your own GPU over loopback. See privacy.

Documentation

Verifying a download yourself

The bootstrap checks the SHA-256 for you and refuses to install a binary it cannot verify. To check by hand, the channel manifest names the current version and its checksum:

curl -fsSL https://get.nodeau.ai/channel/alpha.json

Each release directory also carries a SHA256SUMS file covering its own artifacts.