Duck.ai doesn’t data mine, and has o3 mini which I have found to be very good. Its got some extra functionality like lines to break up text.
Yeah duck is all over bothered with since it came out since you don’t even need to login to use it.
Nice! I saw Mozilla also added an ai chat in the browser recently (not in the phone version that I have seen tho).
It is too bad duck.ai only runs the small models. Gpt4o-mini is not very good, it can be very inaccurate and very inconsistent :( I would like to see the 4.1-mini instead, faster and better and got function calling, so it can do web searches for example. O3 can’t so it can only know what it knows until 2023.
But thanks for the information I will be looking out for when 4.1 is added!
I’ve been using duck.ai recently myself and quite like it. My only complaint with it is that the chats have a length limit, so if you’re working on complex projects you can run into those limits pretty quick. I use it for worldbuilding for a novel I’m working on and I have to use chatgpt for thematic stuff because it has a better memory, but otherwise it’s great for quick/small things.
Alibaba also provides an OpenSource App, it even has support for their multimodal voice chat Model qwen2.5 omni: https://github.com/alibaba/MNN
Excellent, I will be sure not to use this, like all Google shit.
In a few years you won’t be able to anyway
All the time I spent trying to get rid of gemini just to now download this. Am I stupid?
I wouldn’t think so - it depends on your priorities.
The open source and offline nature of this without the pretenses of “Hey, we’re gonna use every query you give as a data point to shove more products down your face” seems very appealing over Gemini. There’s also that Gemini is constantly being shoved in our faces and preinstalled, whereas this is a completely optional download.
Is the chat uncensored?
And unmonitored? Don’t trust anything from Google anymore.
What makes this better than Ollama?
Quote: “all running locally, without needing an internet connection once the model is loaded. Experiment with different models, chat, ask questions with images, explore prompts, and more!”
So you can download it and set the device to airplane mode, never go online again - they won’t be able to monitor anything, even if there’s code for that included.
That is exactly what Ollama does too.
everything is unmonitored if you don’t connect to the network.
But not everything works in those conditions.
it does if you make it work in those conditions.
software that “phones home” is easy to fool.
Just firewall the software or is there anything more fancy i would need to do?
typically the phone home is looking for a response to unlock.
use a packet sniffer to see what the request/response is and replicate it with a proxy or response server.
this is also know as a man-in-the-middle (mitm).
takes skill and knowledge to do, but once you do a few dozen it’s pretty easy since most software “phone homes” are looking for static non-encrypted responses.
Thanks for the info!
Tell that to my Red Dead Redemption 2 install.
Censoring is model dependent so you can select one of the models without the guardrails.
You never heard of ollama or docker model runner?
Enclave on iOS does the trick for the rare times i need a local LLM
Didn’t know about this. Checking it out now, thanks!
Google hosting their shit on Microsofts servers and telling you to sideload and not using their own software distribution method for their own OS is kind of crazy if you think about it
