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textgen
Open-source desktop app for local LLMs. Text, vision, tool-calling, OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API. 100% private.
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ollama
Get up and running with Kimi-K2.6, GLM-5.1, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models.
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diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-ui
Diffusion Bee is the easiest way to run Stable Diffusion locally on your M1 Mac. Comes with a one-click installer. No dependencies or technical knowledge needed.
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anything-llm
Stop renting your intelligence. Own it with AnythingLLM. Everything you need for a powerful local-first agent experience
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LibreChat
Enhanced ChatGPT Clone: Features Agents, MCP, DeepSeek, Anthropic, AWS, OpenAI, Responses API, Azure, Groq, o1, GPT-5, Mistral, OpenRouter, Vertex AI, Gemini, Artifacts, AI model switching, message search, Code Interpreter, langchain, DALL-E-3, OpenAPI Actions, Functions, Secure Multi-User Auth, Presets, open-source for self-hosting. Active.
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LobeHub
The ultimate space for work and life — to find, build, and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you.
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transformerlab-app
The open source research environment for AI researchers to seamlessly train, evaluate, and scale models from local hardware to GPU clusters.
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jan-ai-review-2026
Jan is a desktop application — Windows, macOS, Linux — that lets you download, manage, and chat with open-source LLMs without touching a terminal. Think of it as a ChatGPT replacement where the server runs on your machine. Licensed under Apache 2.0, with the full source on GitHub, it sits in the same category as LM Studio and Ollama, with a distinctly different philosophy: Jan wants to be the complete local AI platform, not just a runner or a chat UI.
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OpenAI just mass-unsubscribed paying users — the case for running AI locally
Jan — offline-first desktop app
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Local LLM Hosting: Complete 2025 Guide - Ollama, vLLM, LocalAI, Jan, LM Studio & More
Jan takes a different approach, prioritizing user privacy and simplicity over advanced features with a 100% offline design that includes no telemetry and no cloud dependencies.
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10 Powerful Open Source AI Tools You Won’t Believe Are Still Free in 2026
GitHub Repository: https://github.com/janhq/jan
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Jan – Ollama alternative with local UI
Exactly: https://github.com/menloresearch/jan/issues/5474
Can't make it work with ollama endpoint
this looks to be the fix but they're not focusing on it: https://github.com/menloresearch/jan/issues/5474#issuecommen...
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AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder
I will let you know tomorrow.
The front-end jan.ai now has a feature where it has an:
>Interface for uploading (or specifying) a folder, then running the prompt on all files in the folder
https://github.com/menloresearch/jan/issues/4909#event-18973...
Hopefully that will allow me to batch process checks/invoices to get them named appropriately, we'll see.
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Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct
If you're on Mac you can download LM Studio and get the MLX version (qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507-mlx). I am running it on 64 gb M1 and it takes about ~30 gb ram. I've been on the hunt for a local orchestrator model that interprets input with speech to text (STT) from WhisperX, then can decide what to do. I have only been running it for a day, but it may be overkill for my setup.
For simple tasks it can quickly respond and then understand to use MCP servers for tasks and other things, but offloading all the heavy lifting to claude code via sdk and cli, then bringing the results back in a summary or with clarifying questions as text to speech (TTS). I'm playing with Kyutai TTs b/c have great models that sound real and can do conversational streaming with VAD (though my mbp is too slow with it for now but see https://unmute.sh/ for demo).
I am looking for an orchestrator model that runs on 10-15 gb of ram and can do really good tool calling and model routing. I'm will likely move to something even smaller designed specifically for this, like Jan Nano and then spin up an intermediate model like Qwen if needed, or try a smaller Qwen. https://github.com/menloresearch/jan?tab=readme-ov-file
Ultimately, I want something that can see my screen and know what is going on and have full context and be live, so I was excited about Gemma 3N multi-modal, but its not really available yet fully with vision at least for MLX. https://deepmind.google/models/gemma/gemma-3n/
Next 6 months in this area is going to be pretty wild though.
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Ollama has a native front end chatbot now
https://github.com/menloresearch/jan
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Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions
I believe there's a couple of similar apps like https://msty.app and https://jan.ai that do the same and allow you to plug in your own API keys.
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