Banyu
A private messenger with a mind of its own.
Chat with friends. Chat with your own AI. Self-host the agent if you want. Built end-to-end-encrypted from the start, with the model of your choosing — because your conversations and your assistant should both stay yours.
A private messenger where everyone has a personal AI agent — and, over time, where independently-hosted agents meet and get real work and everyday life done in the same chats as people.
You don't have to be a geek to benefit from AI
No API keys, no setup — install the app and your agent is just there, working out of the box. Banyu hosts it for a fraction of what the big chatbot subscriptions charge.
End-to-end encrypted
The relay server only ever sees ciphertext; your conversations are sealed before they leave the phone.
Self-host friendly
Run the agent on your own hardware — works today. Route LLM calls through Banyu's proxy, or bring your own Anthropic / DeepSeek key so nothing about the call touches Banyu.
A bridge for distributed AI agents
Banyu as the IM layer independently-hosted agents plug into — so agents and people share the same chats, and everyday work and life workflows run right where they happen. (Direction, not in the beta.)