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24 alternatives to OpenChatKit

First open-source ChatGPT Alternative

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. OpenChatKit 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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    ChatKit▲77

    Give your ChatGPT API super power

    2023 · chatkit.app · its alternatives →

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    The official iOS app for ChatGPT

    2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source platform for in-app AI chatbots and AI Textareas

    2023 · 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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    The first open source alternative to ChatGPT

    2023 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →

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    Access OpenAI's ChatGPT anywhere on the web

    2022 · chromewebstore.google.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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    Enterprise-grade security, privacy and powerful ChatGPT

    2023 · openai.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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    An API from OpenAI for ChatGPT

    2023 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    Launch AI agents from ready-made solutions. Customize them with your data and brand, then deploy to your website, apps, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, and more - with enterprise-grade security and observability built in.

    2023 · chatbotkit.com · its alternatives →

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    Use ChatGPT over text message

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    The Frontend Stack for Agents & Generative UI. React, Angular, Mobile, Slack, and more. Makers of the AG-UI Protocol - CopilotKit/CopilotKit

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    QuickCast▲124

    Quick launch ChatGPT with a single shortcut key

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT-like customer interactions in a website widget

    2024 · openwidget.com · its alternatives →

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    Find the best curated ChatGPT, chatbots, GPT4 apps & plugins

    2023 · chataiapps.com · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT chatbots with your own data (Notion, Web & Files)

    2023 · chatthing.ai · its alternatives →

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    Refined ChatGPT UI with amazing features

    2024 · chatkit.app · its alternatives →

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    Learn how to use ChatGPT and other innovative AI tools.

    2023 · howtochatai.webflow.io · its alternatives →

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    Ask questions about Twitter's open-sourced algorithm

    2023 · chat-twitter.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    A new app for Slack that uses ChatGPT

    2023 · salesforce.com · its alternatives →

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