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Releases: BBALabs/athanor-lite

v0.1.1

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@BBALabs BBALabs released this 05 Jul 23:30

What's New

  • Engine start/stop/restart controls in the chat sidebar
  • Improved chat input (larger default size, visible background, vertical resize)
  • Minor code cleanup

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Run the installer below. Windows SmartScreen may show a warning for new downloads — click "More info" → "Run anyway". The app is signed by Black Box Analytics LLC.

Athanor Lite 0.1.0

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@BBALabs BBALabs released this 05 Jul 20:36

First public release of Athanor Lite — a free, local, private AI desktop app for Windows.

What it does

  • Hardware dashboard — live GPU/CPU/memory meters, VRAM power ring, built-in speed benchmark
    • Model browser — curated catalog with honest fit verdicts computed from your GPU. Resumable, checksum-verified downloads
    • Library — manage installed models, one-click chat launch, disk cleanup
    • Ollama adoption — finds your existing Ollama models and adopts them in place (hard links, zero re-download)
    • Private by construction — models run locally via managed llama.cpp. No account, no cloud, no telemetry

Downloads

File Type
Athanor.Lite_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe NSIS installer (recommended)
Athanor.Lite_0.1.0_x64_en-US.msi MSI installer

Both installers are code-signed by Black Box Analytics LLC via Microsoft Trusted Signing.

Requirements

  • Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
    • WebView2 Runtime (ships with Windows 11)
    • NVIDIA GPU recommended; CPU-only works but slower
    • Ollama (optional, for adopting existing models)

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