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Open-source desktop app for running AI chat models locally or via APIs, as a private ChatGPT alternative.
ByteDance's Coze (Kouzi): an all-in-one AI office assistant for writing, slides, sheets, design, podcasts and images.
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.
Fast, low-cost AI inference provider running LLMs on custom LPU chips via GroqCloud's pay-as-you-go API.
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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
- ✦AI writing
- ✦AI presentation/PPT generation
- ✦AI spreadsheets and tables
- ✦AI design
- ✦AI podcast generation
- ✦AI image generation
- ✦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
- ✦LPU custom inference hardware
- ✦GroqCloud tokens-as-a-service API
- ✦High-speed, low-latency inference
- ✦Pay-as-you-go token pricing
- ✦Free API key to start
- ✦Broad open-model support
- →Private local AI chat
- →Using multiple models in one app
- →Avoiding cloud data sharing
- →Experimenting with open models
- →Drafting documents
- →Building presentations
- →Generating spreadsheets
- →Creating designs and images
- →Producing podcasts
- →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
- →Running LLM inference at high speed
- →Cutting inference costs at scale
- →Powering low-latency AI chat apps
- →Serving models via a hosted API