# Local first AI assistant Kin leverages Turso's libSQL for on-device native Vector Search

DevFeed: [Local first AI assistant Kin leverages Turso's libSQL for on-device native Vector Search](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/local-first-ai-assistant-kin-leverages-turso-s-libsql-for-on-device-native-vector-search-5997.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://turso.tech/blog/local-first-ai-assistant-kin-leverages-tursos-libsql-for-on-device-native-vector-search>)

Author: Simon Westh Henriksen

Published: 2024-10-21T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Turso Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/turso-blog.md>)

Topics: [libSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/libsql.md>), [Turso](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/turso.md>), [Local-First](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/local-first.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [AI search](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-search.md>), [Embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/embeddings.md>), [Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag.md>), [SQLite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sqlite.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/embeddings.md>), [libsql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/libsql.md>), [local](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/local.md>), [local-first](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/local-first.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [on-device](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/on-device.md>), [rag](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rag.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [sqlite](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sqlite.md>), [vector-search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vector-search.md>)

## AI overview

Kin is a privacy-focused, local-first AI assistant that keeps user data on-device. The article explains why its developers chose Turso's libSQL, a SQLite-compatible database with native vector embeddings, to support on-device vector search and retrieval-augmented generation while reducing dependence on cloud servers and network latency.

## Source excerpt

When Kin decided to build a privace focused, local first AI assistant, they settled on Turso's libSQL to power it.