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13 Best Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives (itsfoss.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Eezyville@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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For those of you who don't want to use a ChatGPT but want a LLM.

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[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It's a bad list.

YSK: There are several things mixed in it.

  1. There are "models" (usually meaning "weights" specifically). The models (weights) are the raw data that contain the wisdom of the AIs.
  2. There is software to "run" these models on your own machine, or to connect to an API.
  3. There are services which run models for you and let you interact via web interface, app, or API. Some services may add text to your prompt, to create a better(?) prompt.

There is a bewildering array of models out there. Mostly, they are specialized and/or merged versions of some popular foundation models (by mistral, meta, and a few others). Without endorsing any service, I find that openrouter.ai and together.ai let you try a fairly large selection. There are other services.

You can find more/better information here: !localllama@sh.itjust.works