New App Lets You Run AI Chatbots Locally for Private Use
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GPT4All is an easy-to-use application that allows you to run AI chatbots locally on your PC for privacy.
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It offers a choice of different conversational models to download, ranging from small to sophisticated. You'll need at least 8GB of RAM.
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The setup takes just a few minutes. Pick a model, download, and you can start chatting. Performance will be faster with a GPU.
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You can ask it creative questions or have it explain complex topics to you plainly. It can also "learn" documents you provide.
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It's open-source software from Nomic AI. While not 100% safe, it seems secure enough for most personal use cases.