The AI Browser for Linux
Comet, Atlas, and Dia are Mac-first. Zeed ships for Linux first — a Chromium-based browser with a sidebar AI that runs on your own LLM key, with your data staying on your machine.
AUR helper (yay / paru):
yay -S zeed-binFree · no ads · bring your own API key · Wayland & X11
Install on your distro
Arch from the AUR, Ubuntu/Debian via .deb, everything else via tarball. x86_64.
Arch (AUR)
AUR helper (yay / paru):
yay -S zeed-binOr manual makepkg:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/zeed-bin.git
cd zeed-bin
makepkg -siUbuntu / Debian
Grab the latest .deb and install:
curl -LO https://github.com/efg-technologies/zeed-browser-dist/releases/latest/download/zeed-browser_149.0.7827.102.60-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./zeed-browser_149.0.7827.102.60-1_amd64.debGPG-signed APT repo (apt-get install zeed-browser) is in progress.
Any other distro (tarball)
Fedora, openSUSE, NixOS, Gentoo… extract and run, no install step:
curl -LO https://github.com/efg-technologies/zeed-browser-dist/releases/latest/download/zeed-149.0.7827.102.60-linux-x86_64.tar.xz
tar -xf zeed-149.0.7827.102.60-linux-x86_64.tar.xz
./zeed-149.0.7827.102.60-linux-x86_64/zeedNeeds the usual Chromium runtime libs (gtk3, nss, alsa-lib) — present on any desktop install.
On first launch, paste your OpenRouter API key. That’s it.
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The gap
Why no other AI browser runs on Linux.
Every major AI browser launched Mac-first and none ships a native Linux build. Zeed inverted the order: Linux is the primary platform, macOS is the beta.
| Browser | Maker | Ships on | Native Linux build |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comet | Perplexity | macOS, Windows | — |
| Atlas | OpenAI | macOS | — |
| Dia | The Browser Company | macOS | — |
| Fellou | Fellou AI | macOS, Windows | — |
| Zeed | EFG Technologies | Linux first, macOS beta | ✓ |
Based on each vendor’s public material as of 2026-06. Independent research.
What’s inside
Built the way Linux users expect.
Bring your own key
The AI runs on your own OpenRouter key: you pay OpenRouter directly per token, and Zeed takes no cut. Models are currently fixed — GLM-5.1 for chat, Perplexity Sonar for web search. No subscription, no markup.
On-device data
Memory, history, and bookmarks live in local storage and SQLite on your disk. Telemetry is a short allowlist of anonymous events — never URLs or page content — and one click in settings turns it off. Other AI browsers stream your activity to their cloud — Zeed structurally can’t.
Built by subtraction
No crypto wallet, no news feed, no ads, no sponsored shortcuts. Chromium plus a sidebar AI, minus everything else. Turn the AI off and you’re running plain Chromium.
Wayland and X11, both first-class
Zeed is built on Chromium 149 and inherits its Ozone platform layer,
so it runs on both Wayland and X11. On a Wayland session, add
--ozone-platform-hint=auto (or --ozone-platform=wayland)
to ~/.config/zeed-flags.conf to run natively instead of
through XWayland — the launcher reads that file on every start, the
same convention as chromium-launcher on Arch.
FAQ
Linux questions, answered.
Will Zeed run on my distro?
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Arch installs from the AUR (zeed-bin), Ubuntu and Debian get a .deb, and every other x86_64 distro can use the prebuilt tarball — extract and run, no install step. Dependencies are the usual Chromium set (gtk3, nss, alsa-lib…), already present on any desktop install. x86_64 only for now.
Does Zeed work on Wayland?
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Yes. Zeed is built on Chromium 149 and inherits its Ozone platform layer, so it runs on both Wayland and X11. On a Wayland session you can run natively by adding --ozone-platform-hint=auto (or --ozone-platform=wayland) to ~/.config/zeed-flags.conf; otherwise it runs via XWayland.
How is the AI wired in?
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You bring your own key: paste an OpenRouter API key on first launch and the sidebar AI runs on it — chat on GLM-5.1, web search on Perplexity Sonar. The models are currently fixed; a picker UI is under consideration, not shipped. Requests go from your machine to OpenRouter — your tabs, memory, and history stay on your device, and Zeed takes no cut. Turn AI off and you have plain Chromium.
Is Zeed open source?
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The diff against upstream Chromium is published under MPL-2.0, and the Linux packaging (PKGBUILD, launcher, .deb tooling) is public on GitHub at efg-technologies/zeed-browser-dist. Read it, fork it, patch it.
More questions? See the full FAQ or the comparison with Atlas / Comet / Fellou / Brave.