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Open-source desktop app for running AI chat models locally or via APIs, as a private ChatGPT alternative.
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.
Google's agentic development platform and IDE for building software with autonomous, Gemini-powered coding agents.
Agentic AI platform with a coding desktop app, CLI, and cloud agents for autonomous software development and office work.
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- ✦Run open-source LLMs locally
- ✦Connect to online models (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini)
- ✦Private, offline-capable AI chat
- ✦Open source and self-hostable
- ✦Model library via Hugging Face
- ✦Cross-platform desktop app
- ✦Dialogue with GLM large model
- ✦AI search
- ✦AI drawing
- ✦AI reading
- ✦AI-generated video (沉思清影-AI生视频)
- ✦AI-generated PPT
- ✦Data analysis tools
- ✦Code assistance (代码速写)
- ✦Intelligent agents
- ✦Free DeepSeek chat (web and app)
- ✦Open API platform
- ✦V-series and R-series reasoning models
- ✦DeepSeek-V4 with long context and stronger agent ability
- ✦OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API
- ✦Extensive published model lineup
- ✦Agent-first IDE experience
- ✦Autonomous planning and code execution
- ✦Integrated editor, terminal and browser control
- ✦Powered by Google's Gemini models
- ✦High-level developer supervision
- ✦Multi-agent collaboration for end-to-end tasks
- ✦Persistent memory and custom rules
- ✦Extensible skills and plugins
- ✦Rich context across code, images, and directories
- ✦Automatic codebase documentation generation
- ✦Terminal-native CLI and JetBrains IDE plugin
- ✦Cloud-hosted agents for enterprise use
- →Private local AI chat
- →Using multiple models in one app
- →Avoiding cloud data sharing
- →Experimenting with open models
- →Engaging in conversations with an AI model
- →Generating images and videos using AI
- →Creating presentations with AI assistance
- →Analyzing data with AI tools
- →Assisting with code development
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Building apps with AI agents
- →Automating multi-step coding tasks
- →Prototyping and iterating on software
- →Assisting developers on complex work
- →Autonomous feature development in large codebases
- →Terminal-based AI pair programming
- →Cross-department task automation for legal, finance, HR
- →Onboarding developers to unfamiliar codebases