Hugging Chat
The first open source alternative to ChatGPT
Hugging Chat launched on April 26, 2023 with 374 votes, #46 of 4,853 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
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 ChatGPT, it serves developers and general users seeking an open source conversational AI tool.
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From the sources
HuggingChat's goal is to provide an AI assistant with a friendly, human-like personality and the ability to understand and respond to natural language queries from users like you.
Making the community
Welcome to HuggingChat, the chat app powered by open source AI models. Omni automatically picks the best AI model to give you optimal answers depending on your requests. You can also choose from any available open source models to chat with directly. DeepSeek's natively multimodal 552B MoE, with frontier-level agentic coding and a 1M-token contextfrom huggingface.co
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