Introducing
An LLM. On a disc. Nothing else required.
Each disc is a separate physical instance of the model. Two discs in two drives means two independent conversations running at the same time — no software limit, only how many DVD drives you own.
Every parameter lives on the disc in your hand. Insert it, and the model runs on hardware you already own — nothing calls home, because there's nowhere for it to call.
No patches. No silent updates. No model swapped out under you overnight. What shipped on the disc is what you get, permanently — like a photograph that talks back.
There is no server. There is no account. There is a disc, a drive, and a conversation that exists only on your machine.
A DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) is a 120mm optical storage disc, the same physical size as a CD, that holds far more data by packing it more densely and, in dual-layer discs like this one, by stacking a second reflective data layer on top of the first. Data is stored as a spiral track of microscopic pits and lands etched into a reflective aluminum layer sandwiched inside a clear polycarbonate disc. A laser inside the drive shines light onto that spiral as the disc spins, and a sensor reads the pattern of reflections — long or short, bright or dim — and converts it into the ones and zeros that make up the disc's contents. There is no chip, no flash memory, and no moving parts on the disc itself; all the intelligence lives in the drive that spins and reads it. DVDs became popular starting in the late 1990s as a successor to VHS tape and a step up from the CD, first for movies and later for software and games, before largely being displaced by downloads and streaming. A single-layer DVD (DVD-5) holds about 4.7 GB; a dual-layer disc like the one ChatDVD ships on (DVD-9) holds about 8.5 GB. To use one, you need a DVD drive — either built into an older computer or attached externally — capable of spinning the disc and shining a laser at it. Once inserted, the drive reads the disc's contents the same way it would read a movie or a program: sequentially, from the inside track outward, with no network connection of any kind involved at any point in the process.
Yes. It boots off the disc and runs locally on your machine's own hardware.
No. That's the whole point. Buy a new disc when a new model ships.
Then you no longer have an LLM. Treat it like a car key.