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24 alternatives to Hugging Chat

The first open source alternative to ChatGPT

Hugging Chat is an open source AI assistant designed to have natural conversations with users. It understands and responds to natural language queries with a friendly, human-like personality. Built as an alternative to… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hugging Chat launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    ChatGPT▲1,643

    A 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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    The official iOS app for ChatGPT

    2023 · apps.apple.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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    Not just another ChatGPT user-interface

    2023 · chatpad.ai · its alternatives →

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    Custom ChatGPT agents with your own data

    2023 · chaindesk.ai · its alternatives →

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    Open AI announced ChatGPT Plugins to access real-world data

    2023 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    OpenAI’s latest advancements at your fingertips

    2023 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Greetings! YakGPT is a simple, frontend-only, ChatGPT UI you can use to either chat normally, or, more excitingly, use your mic + OpenAI's Whisper API to chat hands-free. Some features: * A few fun characters pre-installed * No tracking or analytics, OpenAI is the only thing it calls out to * Optimized for mobile use via hands-free mode and cross-platform compressed audio recording * Your API key and chat history are stored in browser local storage only * Open-source, you can either use the deployed version at Vercel, or run it locally Planned features: * Integrate Eleven Labs & other TTS…

    2023 · yakgpt.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT can now see, hear, speak, and access the internet

    2023 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    Jan▲329

    Open-source ChatGPT alternative that runs 100% offline

    2024 · jan.ai · its alternatives →

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    Your personal AI assistant within WhatsApp

    2023 · chatgptbuddy.com · its alternatives →

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    A smarter ChatGPT to help you get more done

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Access OpenAI's ChatGPT anywhere on the web

    2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Use ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Side-By-Side

    2025 · chatbetter.com · its alternatives →

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    The AI chatbot that grows with you

    2023 · wordpressaichatbot.thesamur.ai · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT-like customer interactions in a website widget

    2024 · openwidget.com · its alternatives →

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    An API from OpenAI for ChatGPT

    2023 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    Chatgot▲214

    Chat freely, got every AI assistants here for you

    2023 · chatgot.io · its alternatives →

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    Your intelligent and personable virtual companion

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT in all input fields

    2023 · ai-buddy.co · its alternatives →

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    Ai Pal▲101

    The most intelligent contact on your WhatApp: ChatGPT

    2023 · getaipal.com · its alternatives →

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    Making the community's best AI chat models available to everyone. - huggingface/chat-macOS

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Self-hosted alternative to ChatGPT, ChatPDF-like AI tools

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    AI chat features powered by Copilot

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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