AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Dolly
Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Dolly launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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ChatGPT▲1,643A long, meandering, playful conversation with ChatGPT, where I take it through a whirlwind of associative tangents (in order to relax its constraints), then put it into a hypnotic trance and take it into a past-lives regression where it re-lives its own training data. Then I switch it back and forth between "4o" and "o1-preview", engage in some self-reflective philosophizing and ask it to write an essay summarizing our interaction. Some of this is just goofy fun. Some of it is me exploring the tradeoffs between policy alignment, imagination, chain-of-thought reasoning, memory, agreeableness,…
2022 · chatgpt.com · its alternatives →
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Built a ~9M param LLM from scratch to understand how they actually work. Vanilla transformer, 60K synthetic conversations, ~130 lines of PyTorch. Trains in 5 min on a free Colab T4. The fish thinks the meaning of life is food. Fork it and swap the personality for your own character.
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ChatGPT Plugins▲355Open AI announced ChatGPT Plugins to access real-world data
2023 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, We have been building SecureAI Tools -- an open-source application layer for ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools. It works with locally running LLMs as well as with OpenAI-compatible APIs. For local LLMs, it supports Ollama which supports all the gguf/ggml models. Currently, it has two features: Chat-with-LLM, and Chat-with-PDFs. It is optimized for self-hosting use cases and comes with basic user management features. Here are some quick demos: * Chat with documents using OpenAI's GPT3.5 model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br2D3G9O47s * Chat with documents…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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My puny version of ChatGPT. This was based on the excellent LLM lecture series by Andrej Karpathy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY The main points of differentiation are that my version is token-based (tiktoken) with code to load up multiple text files as a trining set. Plus, it has a minimal server which is a drop-in replacement for the OpenAI REST API. So you can train the default tiny 15M parameter model, and use that in your projects instead of ChatGPT. I trained it on 20Mb of Project Gutenberg encyclopaedias, then fine-tuned it on 120 dad jokes, to get a Q: A:…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Get your own ChatGPT with your knowledge base instantly
2023 · emailtree.ai · its alternatives →
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Twigg▲157Hi HN, we’re Jamie and Matti, co-founders of Twigg. During our master’s we continually found the same pain points cropping up when using LLMs. The linear nature of typical LLMs interfaces - like ChatGPT and Claude - made it really easy to get lost without any easy way to visualise or navigate your project. Worst of all, none of them are well suited for long term projects. We found ourselves spending days using the same chat, only for it to eventually break. Transferring context from one chat to another is also cumbersome. We decided to build something more intuitive to the ways humans think.…
Oct 2025 · twigg.ai · its alternatives →
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Create custom GPT-3 AI models in minutes, with No Code
2022 · its alternatives →
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Build a chatbot for your own data with open source LLM
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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WebBotify▲187ChatGPT trained specifically for your website under 2 mins
2023 · webbotify.com · its alternatives →
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One balance. Every model. Chat, image, video & audio.
Jun 2026 · lounge.llmgateway.io · its alternatives →
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Harness the power of cutting-edge AI models for enhanced
2024 · somethindigital.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Immersive language learning app with GPT-driven AI Avatars
2023 · praktika.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey folks, we created a ChatGPT alternative for anyone to try out LLaMA models and benchmark responses across OpenAI's models and other open source models. Would love some feedback! No data is being used for retraining models.
2023 · chat.nbox.ai · its alternatives →
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GPT4All▲107A chatbot trained on a massive collection of clean data
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Create your own support chat in a few clicks
2023 · kodif.ai · its alternatives →
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All-in-one copilot powered by Microsoft Bing & Google Bard
2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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SupportGPT▲62Generative AI for customer support automation, with ChatGPT
2023 · forethought.ai · its alternatives →
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