News and announcements
Update - 2026-04-23
More one-click MCP servers for your AI
Twenty new preset MCP servers join the Featured list. Daneel connects to any HTTP/SSE MCP server you paste by URL, these are just one-click ready.
Major feature - 2026-04-22
Daneel now speaks, and listens — three voices, one of them fully local
Pick the voice that suits the moment: system voices for zero-install, Kokoro 82M for fully on-device synthesis on WebGPU, or Google Cloud voices when you want that extra polish. And hold Alt+Space to dictate.
Feature - 2026-04-19
Wikidata next to Wikipedia — facts you can scan, not just read
Click an entity in your knowledge graph and you now get two panels side by side: Wikipedia for the story, Wikidata for the structured facts. Birth dates, awards, employers, external IDs, all in one scannable card.
Feature - 2026-04-18
Reclaim disk space from your local models
A new Settings section shows how much disk every downloaded model is using, grouped by role, with per-model trash and a delete-all.
Major feature - 2026-04-18
Your LLM at 37,000 feet
Cache your vault and a local model before boarding. Work with your own AI for the whole flight. The other first-class passengers are still waiting on satellite internet.
What's New - 2026-04-18
Hide the Widget in Fullscreen, or Per Site
The launcher now hides itself when a page goes fullscreen, and a new per-site toggle in the popup gives you explicit control anywhere else.
What's New - 2026-04-17
Math Formulas Render Cleanly
Ask an LLM for a derivation, and you now get typeset math across every chat surface, not raw LaTeX.
What's New - 2026-04-17
Mermaid Diagrams, Now in Every Chat
Ask for a flowchart, sequence, or mindmap, and the chat renders the diagram instead of the source.
Behind the Code - 2026-04-16
How we build Daneel: full spec-driven development with a coding agent
8,000 lines of specs, 82,000 lines of code, 1,331 tests, 27 releases, and 25 articles in 26 days. Not a team of ten. One developer and a coding agent, working from 8,000 lines of specification.
What's New - 2026-04-16
Bonsai by PrismML: A 1.7B one bit model in 291 megabytes, running in your browser
Bonsai 1.7B brings native 1-bit quantization to Daneel's WebGPU engine, delivering a thinking-capable model at a fraction of the usual download size.
Update - 2026-04-16
Claude Opus 4.7 is now available in Daneel
Anthropic's newest flagship model brings stronger coding, sharper vision, and better instruction following, available today in the Claude settings.
Feature - 2026-04-16
Index any site, even without a sitemap
Daneel can now discover pages by following links, so sites without a sitemap.xml are no longer invisible to site search.
Feature - 2026-04-09
PDF is now a first-class citizen in Daneel
Open any PDF in Chrome and start chatting, no upload required. Extract text, ask questions, copy as Markdown, or save to a vault, all from the same widget you already know.
Feature - 2026-04-08
Documentation, where you need it
Every settings panel now opens its own help column — the right doc, beside the right setting, one click away.
Feature - 2026-04-07
From pretty graph to research workbench — analytics, paths, and Wikipedia for your knowledge graph
The 3D knowledge graph now has an insights panel that ranks key entities, detects topic clusters, surfaces bridges, and lets you trace connections between any two entities — plus one-click Wikipedia lookup that opens articles right next to the graph.
Feature - 2026-04-07
Click any link, stay in the vault — the document viewer is now a markdown mini-browser
Web pages saved to your vault are now navigable: click any link inside them to fetch, convert, and display the next page right in the viewer, with a back button and no new tab in sight.
Feature - 2026-04-05
Start it and forget it — background tasks that survive everything
Site crawls, vault indexing, and knowledge graph builds now run in the background — close panels, switch tabs, even restart Chrome, and your work picks up where it left off.
What's New - 2026-04-03
Gemma 4 lands in Daneel — Google's latest open model, running locally
Google's Gemma 4 family brings 128K context, built-in reasoning, and 35+ language support to Daneel's WebGPU and Ollama backends — running entirely on your device.
Feature - 2026-04-02
Chat with any YouTube video
Daneel now extracts YouTube transcripts automatically — ask questions, get summaries, and find key moments without leaving the page.
Feature - 2026-04-01
The Vault, part 2: your knowledge graph
Daneel extracts entities from your documents, resolves duplicates, builds a relationship graph, and renders it as an interactive 3D visualization you can filter and explore.
Preview - 2026-03-28
Docker Companion — local MCP servers, Ollama, and health monitoring from your browser
A built-in Docker Compose generator that spins up local MCP servers, Ollama, and a health sidecar — all from your browser settings. Power user preview.
Feature - 2026-03-25
Your data, your way — backup anywhere
Export everything to a local file, Azure Blob Storage, or any S3-compatible service. Your settings, conversations, and indexed sites travel with you — your secrets don't.
Feature - 2026-03-20
The Vault, part 1: your private document knowledge base
Import your own documents, embed them locally, and chat with your personal knowledge base. PDF, DOCX, Markdown, HTML, plain text — all searchable, all private.
Feature - 2026-03-18
Azure AI Foundry support: frontier models, your private cloud
Deploy GPT-4.1, GPT-4o, or Phi-4 on your own Azure subscription — frontier model power with your organization's data governance. The privacy sweet spot between local and third-party cloud.
Feature - 2026-03-12
Meet Agents — your AI, your rules
Create specialized AI personas with structured prompts and bound tool access — then attach them to any conversation or document vault.
Feature - 2026-03-04
Find your best model — the AI registry that knows your hardware
A unified model registry across five providers, hardware-aware scoring, and a guided wizard that recommends the right model for your GPU, your priorities, and your privacy preferences.
Feature - 2026-02-25
Connect your AI to the tools you already use
Daneel now speaks MCP — connect Stripe, Notion, Vercel, Supabase, and dozens more services directly to your browser AI, with full OAuth support and multi-turn tool calling.
How It Works - 2026-02-18
How Daneel's licensing works — one payment, no account, full control
A one-time payment, a portable license key, no account required. Here's how Daneel keeps premium features simple, private, and permanent.
Feature - 2026-02-10
When you need the full power — Claude on Daneel
Bring your own Claude API key for tasks that demand frontier intelligence — complex reasoning, multi-step tool chains, and long documents — while keeping local inference as your default.
How It Works - 2026-02-04
Privacy in Daneel: how your data stays yours across every feature
From on-device inference to encrypted API keys, from MCP credential isolation to opt-in analytics — a complete look at how Daneel protects your data at every layer.
Feature - 2026-02-01
Search by meaning, not just keywords
Daneel crawls and indexes entire websites, then lets you search them with natural language — matching concepts, not strings, with results in under 5 milliseconds.
Feature - 2026-01-18
Zero-install AI — Gemini Nano runs inside your browser
Chrome ships an AI model built into the browser itself. Daneel now supports it — no downloads, no API keys, no server. Here's how to activate it and what you can do with it.
Feature - 2026-01-15
Run AI on your own machine — Ollama meets Daneel
Connect your local Ollama server to Daneel and run models like Llama, Mistral, and Qwen entirely on your hardware — with streaming, tool calling, and full model management from your browser.
Release - 2026-01-01
Daneel AI 1.0 is here
The first stable release of Daneel AI — private, local-first AI for your browser. Chat with any page, search entire sites, and build your own document vault, all without leaving your data.