Otaku

What it does

Otaku is a free LLM frontend for roleplay with a web UI and a terminal interface. Runs on your machine, local model or cloud API, no infrastructure, one-command install.

otaku is a free LLM frontend for roleplay with a web UI and a terminal. Runs on your machine, local model or cloud API, no infrastructure, one-command install.

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