Replit building desktop app with Microsoft and Nvidia OpenShell

Replit is building a powerful desktop app with a focus on security and reliability, citing supply-chain attacks and catastrophic agent mistakes as risks of desktop AI apps.

The company is partnering with Microsoft and will be an early adopter of Nvidia's OpenShell.

A quoted Replit post says the desktop preview runs builds locally on Windows, with each build in its own sandbox powered by Microsoft Execution Containers and OpenShell, and offers a waitlist.