# Parallax

Parallax is the operating system for sovereign AI. Under the hood, it is a distributed runtime and service fabric that turns heterogeneous machines into one traceable service you can build on. When a model is too big for one host, it is sharded into contiguous layer slices and distributed across your laptop, a lab GPU, and a teammate’s workstation, all orchestrated as one service. Each request takes the fastest path on a single host, across a LAN, or over the public internet, without a public IP or matching hardware.

Parallax opens up a wide range of ways to host and run your own AI apps and agents that are completely your own, including coding copilots, personal assistants, vision and speech pipelines, and multi-agent simulations.

At launch, Parallax supports **40+ open models** from **0.6B** to **trillion-class MoE** on **GPUs** and **Apple Silicon**, across **Windows, Linux, and macOS**.<br>

* Host your own AI cluster: [github.com/GradientHQ/parallax](http://github.com/GradientHQ/parallax)


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