GPT4All
Privacy-first desktop chat with local language models
GPT4All is a desktop ecosystem for running open large language models locally and privately. It offers a chat client with document retrieval over local files and bindings for several programming languages.
Key features
- Runs on CPU
- Local document chat
- Cross-platform desktop app
- Language bindings
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- Mature project with 77.4k GitHub stars
- Written in C++
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