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GPT-5
“Zo feels like an n of 1 product. I discover new use cases every single week and it's quickly become my favorite product.”
BeccaChief of Staff at Factorial
“Phenomenal product. I've been using Cursor for coding and tasks it isn't marketed for. Zo is exactly what I've been looking for and more.”
MaxFounder at Stealth
“Genuinely feels like the most interesting take in the “personal AI computer” space.”
KausthubTech Lead at Susquehanna
“The most evolved version of Notion would be Zo.”
SeanInnovation at Complex
“Website and onboarding video undersell the sh*t out of Zo. This is truly a revolutionary product.”
SamAI Ops at Dragonfly Thinking
“extremely impressed by the level of automation it offers - got it to set up a pipeline between Canvas and a Notion page in literally 2 minutes.”
OttoStudent at Northeastern
“Had to fix something yesterday while out shopping and just logged into Zo on Safari on my iPhone and fixed it. Wild. Just like texting your always on assistant.”
MoritzFounder at Stealth
“Zo is sick, it's gonna be like a snowball and it's just starting to roll for me.”
ShreyansCofounder at Maven
“Zo gave me my first ever taste of what it must be like to be a builder and it was intoxicating.”
VrijenFounder at Careerspan
“I had a magical experience where I had a file I wanted to check while I was out and I was able to text to get the answer.”
LukeEx-OpenAI Product
“This is the notebook I've kind of been dreaming of.”
JesseSoftware Engineer at Stripe
“Zo Computer must be one of the most compelling products I've seen in a very long time.”
PaulFounder at Stealth
“Zo replaced Google Docs for me. I love how it organizes all my files and lets me edit and reference everything right in the chat.”
AntheaFreediving and Yoga Instructor
“Just gotta say I LOVE ZO. Already been playing around building apps and it's just amazing.”
EdwardData Engineer at Heaven Hill Brands
“Zo is so useful for managing my experiments.”
MingxuanPhD candidate in Engineering Embryology at Carnegie Science
“I think that you guys are building the most important company in AI productivity right now.”
MattManaging Partner at Factorial Capital
“It can see years of conceptual stuff from my Obsidian, but has direct access to coding LLMs.”
KamranPhD candidate in International Affairs at CMU
“I'm completely in love with the concept of Zo.”
RyaanSoftware Engineer at BandLab
“I genuinely see limitless opportunities. I'd use this every day just in its current state.”
SaharshaUndergraduate Student at Princeton
“I'm excited about this self-growing context and knowledge base of everything I'm trying to do across all of my different systems and tools.”
DhruvDirector of Product Management at dv01
“Vibing with the idea of generalized file system functionality and having everything interconnected despite its format.”
MarkBackend Engineer at Sleeper
“Zo feels like an n of 1 product. I discover new use cases every single week and it's quickly become my favorite product.”
BeccaChief of Staff at Factorial
“Phenomenal product. I've been using Cursor for coding and tasks it isn't marketed for. Zo is exactly what I've been looking for and more.”
MaxFounder at Stealth
“Genuinely feels like the most interesting take in the “personal AI computer” space.”
KausthubTech Lead at Susquehanna
“The most evolved version of Notion would be Zo.”
SeanInnovation at Complex
“Website and onboarding video undersell the sh*t out of Zo. This is truly a revolutionary product.”
SamAI Ops at Dragonfly Thinking
“extremely impressed by the level of automation it offers - got it to set up a pipeline between Canvas and a Notion page in literally 2 minutes.”
OttoStudent at Northeastern
“Had to fix something yesterday while out shopping and just logged into Zo on Safari on my iPhone and fixed it. Wild. Just like texting your always on assistant.”
MoritzFounder at Stealth
“Zo is sick, it's gonna be like a snowball and it's just starting to roll for me.”
ShreyansCofounder at Maven
“Zo gave me my first ever taste of what it must be like to be a builder and it was intoxicating.”
VrijenFounder at Careerspan
“I had a magical experience where I had a file I wanted to check while I was out and I was able to text to get the answer.”
LukeEx-OpenAI Product
“This is the notebook I've kind of been dreaming of.”
JesseSoftware Engineer at Stripe
“Zo Computer must be one of the most compelling products I've seen in a very long time.”
PaulFounder at Stealth
“Zo replaced Google Docs for me. I love how it organizes all my files and lets me edit and reference everything right in the chat.”
AntheaFreediving and Yoga Instructor
“Just gotta say I LOVE ZO. Already been playing around building apps and it's just amazing.”
EdwardData Engineer at Heaven Hill Brands
“Zo is so useful for managing my experiments.”
MingxuanPhD candidate in Engineering Embryology at Carnegie Science
“I think that you guys are building the most important company in AI productivity right now.”
MattManaging Partner at Factorial Capital
“It can see years of conceptual stuff from my Obsidian, but has direct access to coding LLMs.”
KamranPhD candidate in International Affairs at CMU
“I'm completely in love with the concept of Zo.”
RyaanSoftware Engineer at BandLab
“I genuinely see limitless opportunities. I'd use this every day just in its current state.”
SaharshaUndergraduate Student at Princeton
“I'm excited about this self-growing context and knowledge base of everything I'm trying to do across all of my different systems and tools.”
DhruvDirector of Product Management at dv01
“Vibing with the idea of generalized file system functionality and having everything interconnected despite its format.”
MarkBackend Engineer at Sleeper
Your new home for AI
Store your files, connect your tools, then ask AI to do the work in a unified workspace. Do research, build projects, and host anything – all in one place, with all your context.
Connect
A unified workspace for your files and projects.
All your tools: Gmail, Notion, Linear, and more.
Access from anywhere – you can even text your AI computer.
Create
Use AI to research & build on top of your files and tools.
Manage complex projects, all in one place.
Generate images & videos, transcribe audio – use dozens of built-in AI tools.
Host
Build personal apps, tools, and websites on top of your files.
Craft AI workflows with natural language. Run automatically with schedules or triggers.
Host your own projects, or run self-hosted services.
How it's yours
You own it. All of it.
Your computer is stored in a standard format that you can download anytime. It gets backed up automatically, so you never lose a thing.
Computing history
A brief history of computing
Long before punch cards and cloud storage, humans were already hacking information systems. Aboriginal songlines turned landscapes into memory palaces. Cave painters used mineral pigments to encode knowledge on stone walls—inventing a storage system that's lasted tens of thousands of years. We've always been builders of tools to extend our minds...
Fast-forward ~20,000 years, and we have the International Business Machines Corporation, which sells the first mass-produced computer in 1953. The first unit was sold to the John Hancock Insurance Company. Back then, computers were only accessible to large corporations, because they were gigantic, obscenely expensive ($1.5 million in today's dollars!), and absurdly difficult to program.
For a while, interacting with a computer generally looked like this: you punched holes in cards or paper tape, painstakingly crafting a "program" (a stack of cards or a long strip of tape) and praying that you didn't make any mistakes. It was painful, but it was the beginning of something remarkable. A system for transferring instructions from humans to primitive machine "minds".
In the 1960s and 1970s, punch cards gave way to programming languages like FORTRAN and COBOL (still arcane, but much more approachable than a grid of 1s and 0s), and the teleprinter (essentially a typewriter hooked up to a computer) which let you send commands from your desk and get responses back, printed on paper. The applications in the workplace were immense, and IBM's System/360/370 era made the company a juggernaut.
And then the personal computer hit the market like a storm. Born from a garage and the brains of a couple misfits who saw the future, Apple Computer bundled everything a regular person needed to be productive with a computer: a sleek machine, and an approachable programming language (BASIC) – just plug in a TV and go. IBM shrugged it off as a toy — until it wasn't. The personal computer became a real threat to the old order of corporate machines.
The rest is history that we all know: the graphical user interface, the internet, the smartphone, the cloud, software as a service, real-time collaboration, and now, the AI assistant. It all seems like the steady march of forward progress...
But what if we've also moved backward?
We lost the plot.
The personal computer started as a rebellion against the corporate mainframe. Your computer, your files, your applications—tangibly yours, sitting right there on your desk.
Today, the experience of most computer users is to... just use the internet. And for most people, that means using a handful of cloud services operated by large corporations, who store your data on their own servers, in opaque, inaccessible formats.
The idealism of the '90s web is gone...The public and semi-public spaces we created to develop our identities, cultivate communities, and gain in knowledge were overtaken by forces using them to gain power of various kinds. – Yancey Strickler (2019)
We're so back.
Once upon a time, the personal computer was an infinitely flexible tool for exploring ideas. Steve Jobs called computers "bicycles for our minds". To programmers and tinkerers alike, PCs and the early web felt like a new horizon—where the only limit was your imagination.
Access to computers—and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works—should be unlimited and total. – Steven Levy (1984)
The present is a strange, exciting moment in the history of computing. In recent years, LLMs have shown us that soon, anyone will be able to instruct a computer to do practically anything, in plain English. And we're all coming to terms with the cloud. We live in an era where our computers are more abstract, and less tangible. Portable in the physical realm, but locked up in the digital realm.
We believe all of this is a sign that it's time for the computer to change, again.
Our vision for the future
Our vision for the future of personal computing is an intelligent personal server.
The new soul of your computer is your files, on your server. You should be able to access this new computer-soul from anywhere, upgrade your hardware on-demand, time travel to a past version of your data at any time, and connect to other machines you own.
Your files, tools, and creations should be less fragmented, and more tangibly yours. On Zo, all files are stored using open file formats. Whenever possible, services are hosted on your server. This includes the Zo application itself, as well as all software created or installed by you or Zo. Your entire Zo Computer can be packaged up, saved, and restored on any machine.
You should have more custody over your AI. On Zo, you can use any AI model from any provider. All AI memories, search indexes, and settings are stored on your server using open-weight embedding models and open-source software. Our long-term vision is to enable anyone to run, train, and build their own AI models and tools on their own server.
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How it adapts
Switch models. Keep everything.
Zo lets you choose the best AI model for the moment. All your data and customization stays put, stored on your own personal server.
Search models...
Haiku 4.5Anthropic's best small model, great for most tasks.
GPT-5OpenAI's most powerful model.
Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle's fast, capable model.
Kimi K2 ThinkingMoonshot's best open-source thinking model.
GLM 4.6Z AI's speedy agentic model.
GPT-5 miniA smaller, faster version of GPT-5, OpenAI's most powerful model.
Sonnet 4Anthropic's legacy model for coding and complex tasks.
Knowledge cutoffSep 2024
Context window400k tokens
Release dateAug 2025
Tunable reasoningTunable verbosity
OpenAI's most powerful model. State-of-the-art performance across coding, math, writing, health, visual perception, and more.
On Zo, you can choose between all the leading AI models. Zo includes:
A large selection of language models – which can use all of Zo's tools to help you get things done.
Built-in models for transcription (converting speech in audio files to text), image generation, and video generation.
We rigorously evaluate models to ensure we offer the best models in each modality (with a preference for providers that are both fast and high-quality).
Zo supports working with most file formats, including notes, spreadsheets, code, word documents, audio and video files, images, PDFs, and Ebooks.
If a file can't be edited directly in the file browser, you can ask Zo to edit or convert the file in the chat. Because Zo has full access to the computer and can install tools as needed, you may be surprised by what Zo is able to handle.
Yes! Depending on your plan, your Zo server will come with 128GB–1TB of fast disk storage (located on your server), and unlimited network storage.
Yes – we perform regular "snapshots" of your computer, storing the entire state of your computer at a point in time. On the Zo System page, you can restore your computer to any point in time.
In addition to built-in integrations with Notion, Google Calendar, Gmail, and more, Zo can build its own integration with many apps, tools, and services. Zo can research the web to find the best way to integrate any service, write code to build the integration, and walk you through the process of getting developer credentials.
Once Zo has built an integration, you can simply tell Zo to use it. This approach enables similar "AI plugin" functionality to MCP, but is much more flexible and powerful.
There's a whole universe of software out there, and with Zo's help, you can explore and leverage any of it to do practically anything on your Zo Computer. The only limit is your imagination – and your determination.
If you're excited about building on Zo and spreading the word, apply to be a Zo Ambassador. If you're accepted, we'll grant you a discounted plan, bonus AI credits, and cash for referring users to Zo.