thunderbird/thunderbolt: Mozilla's AI Client 'AI You Control' Gains 667 Stars Today — Model-Agnostic, Self-Hostable

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Thunderbird's new AI client Thunderbolt is trending at 667 stars today with 2.6K total. The cross-platform app (web, iOS, Android, Mac, Linux, Windows) supports frontier, local, and on-prem models via Ollama, llama.cpp, or any OpenAI-compatible API. Self-hostable via Docker with no vendor lock-in. Still in active development and undergoing security audit, but the Mozilla/Thunderbird brand entering the AI chat space with a fully open, model-agnostic client signals growing demand for AI tools that respect data sovereignty.