Petal

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An open-source collaborative pair programming and screen-sharing app.

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Placed in Assess: 2 article(s) of evidence from 1 source(s), led by open-source activity, with 1 in the last 30 days. Confidence 37%.

5Hacker News·10/14/2026open_source
Petal, a free open-source CoScreen-style pair programming tool
Former CoScreen founders have released Petal, a free and open-source pair programming and collaborative screen-sharing app after CoScreen was shut down by Datadog. The tool supports shared windows, multiple cursors, persistent rooms, macOS, Windows, and a web app, with media transport via LiveKit and self-hosting options.
7Hacker News·7/23/2026open_source
Petals lets people run large language models at home
Petals is a distributed inference and fine-tuning system that lets users run parts of large language models on consumer GPUs and share the rest over a peer network, BitTorrent-style. It supports models such as Llama 3.1, Mixtral, Falcon, and BLOOM, with API-like usability and access to lower-level model behavior for customization.