SurfSense
Customizable AI research agent connected to your knowledge
SurfSense is a self-hosted AI research assistant that connects to your documents, browser history, and external sources to answer questions with citations. It functions as a private alternative to NotebookLM and Perplexity.
Key features
- Cited research answers
- Connectors for many sources
- Local and cloud LLM support
- Podcast generation
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Mature project with 15.8k GitHub stars
- Written in Python
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