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Open-source desktop app for running AI chat models locally or via APIs, as a private ChatGPT alternative.
Native macOS app that unifies 300+ AI models in one private workspace with agents, MCP tools, and one-time licensing.
AI research lab building multimodal 'omni' foundation models and infrastructure aimed at robotics and physical-world applications.
AI super-assistant plus enterprise ML platform: ChatLLM for teams and end-to-end model building for enterprises; broad, pricing not shown.
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.
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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
- ✦Switch across 300+ hosted and local AI models
- ✦Native macOS app with global shortcut and screenshot-to-answer
- ✦Reusable agents, projects, and forked chats
- ✦Multimodal analysis of PDFs, images, and code
- ✦MCP tools and code execution
- ✦Local chat storage with encryptable API keys
- ✦Omni multimodal model research and development
- ✦Real-time inference API (Infer) for enterprise use
- ✦Video tagging, search, and clipping infrastructure
- ✦Training data generation from egocentric and robotics footage
- ✦ChatLLM access to multiple top AI models
- ✦AI agents and automation
- ✦No-code full-stack app creation
- ✦Enterprise generative AI platform
- ✦Structured ML model building
- ✦Optimization and forecasting
- ✦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
- →Private local AI chat
- →Using multiple models in one app
- →Avoiding cloud data sharing
- →Experimenting with open models
- →Using multiple AI providers in one place
- →Explaining or fixing on-screen content instantly
- →Building reusable task-specific agents
- →Analyzing documents and screenshots privately
- →Powering robotics perception with multimodal AI
- →Running large-scale video search and analysis via API
- →Sourcing specialized training data for frontier AI models
- →Chat with many AI models in one place
- →Build and deploy ML models
- →Automate tasks with AI agents
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference