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Jan

An open-source, offline ChatGPT alternative that runs entirely on your machine.

Jan is a desktop AI app that runs LLMs fully offline on your own computer, positioned as an open-source alternative to ChatGPT. It bundles its own local inference engine (Cortex, built on llama.cpp), lets you download and switch between open-weight models, and can also connect to remote OpenAI-compatible providers. It exposes a local OpenAI-compatible API server so other apps can call your local models.

Repository

menloresearch/jan

Language

TypeScript

What you'd build with it

  • Giving non-technical users a polished desktop app to chat with local models with no setup
  • Running models fully offline for privacy-sensitive or air-gapped workflows
  • Exposing a local OpenAI-compatible endpoint so other tools can hit on-device models

Tags

desktopofflinechatopenai-compatible