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No matter what you do with it, unfortunately, it is not an open-source solution. + +As a proprietary option, it isn't beneficial in every way. So, what are some open source ChatGPT alternatives? Here, let me highlight the best ChatGPT alternatives that are open-source in nature. + +📋 + +Not all ChatGPT alternatives function the same way. Some solutions are purely meant for developers to create their own chatbot on top of it. And, a few others offer a chatbot or demo for you to test. + +### Reasons to Look for Open-Source ChatGPT Alternatives + +Relying on any single service is bad for the consumers. The same goes for ChatGPT. + +In addition to that, here's why we should look for open ChatGPT alternatives: + + * Get transparency on how our data is being handled. + * You can choose to build your own solution, saving money in the process. + * Customize the ChatGPT alternative as per your requirements. + * You are not locked on to the policies of a single company. The open-source solution can be flexible as per your needs. + * Contributions to the open-source project will make an impact on everyone across the globe. + + + +I do not intend to say that ChatGPT is bad, or you should stop using it. However, "we" as the users should benefit more from the open alternatives in the long-run. + +Now, let us move on to the best open-source ChatGPT alternatives. + +❌ + +Not all demos allow commercial use. You need to be careful when using the content from the chatbot demos for some options. + +### 1\. OpenChatKit + +![][1] + +[OpenChatKit][2] is a full-fledged ChatGPT alternative developed by [Together][3]. + +The company initially collaborated with research organizations like **LAION** (responsible for [**Stable Diffusion**][4]) to create a training dataset. When writing this, it uses the [RedPajama model][5], one of the largest open-source AI models. + +You can try if it fits your use-cases and explore its [GitHub page][6] for technical details. + +### 2\. ChatRWKV + +![][7] + +ChatRWKV is an open-source alternative powered by an RNN (Recurrent Neural Network) language model. + +You can find a demo of it on [Huggingface][8]. The [GitHub page][9] mentions all about its repository, technical details, and the latest version preview. + +Developers and businesses can build their chatbots utilizing ChatRWKV. + +### 3\. ColossalChat + +![][10] + +Colossal AI is an open-source initiative to help you clone AI models and build ChatGPT-like platforms for your requirements. + +[ColossalChat][11] is the chatbot leveraging the project. Unfortunately, the demo is not functional when writing this. + +You can explore its source code on [GitHub][12]. + +### 4\. KoboldAI + +A ChatGPT-like AI for assisted writing in the form of a browser-based front-end. While it supports a chatbot mode, it is primarily designed as an AI assistant for writing geared towards Novels. + +There are various models available, and you can run it on [Google Colab][13] easily. + +It supports different modes to optimize your writing and play with it. You can explore all about it on its [GitHub page][14]. + +### 5\. GPT4ALL + +GPT4all is an interesting open-source project that aims to provide you with chatbots that you can run anywhere. + +Yes, you can run it locally on your CPU and supports almost every other GPU. + +All you need to do is install its desktop application (the chat client), and get started. Want to learn how it's made? Check out its [GitHub page][15]. + +### 6\. HuggingChat + +![][16] + +Sounds familiar? Well, Huggingface's platform is used by other AI models and chatbots to showcase a demo. + +And, HuggingChat is its take on a ChatGPT alternative, which is open-source. It makes use of the community's best AI models to make the chatbot work. + +You can [take it for a spin][17], and explore the [source code][18] for more details. One can choose to use the chat application with a different back-end to meet specific requirements. + +### 7\. Koala + +Koala by [EasyLM][19] is a chatbot that you can try running locally. It is built on top of LLaMA dataset. + +You can refer to its [official blog post][20] to explore the intriguing details. + +The demo is not available at the moment. However, you can follow its [documentation][21] to try running it locally and test it out. + +### 8\. Vicuna + +![][22] + +Vicuna is yet another open-source chatbot trained on top of LLaMA. As per the developers, when evaluated using GPT-4 as a judge, it concluded that it comes close to the quality of ChatGPT. + +An interesting claim that you might want to test against. You can select the language model Vicuna and try it on [Chatbot Arena][23]. + +Explore more about it on its [official blog post][24]. + +### 9\. Alpaca-LoRA + +Alpaca-Lora aims to provide an instruct model using low-rank adaptation, letting you run it on a Raspberry Pi. + +The entire model can be trained using a single RTX 4090 GPU in a few hours. + +At the time, the demo was not working. You can explore all about it on its [GitHub page][25]. + +### 10\. Dolly + +![][26] + +Dolly is another language model trained in the Databricks machine learning platform licensed for commercial use. + +You can take a look at the source code on [GitHub][27] and explore the model on [Huggingface][28]. + +### 11\. H2oGPT + +![][29] + +H2oGPT is tailored for queries to help you summarize your documents. To achieve that, it lets you upload and view documents through its user interface, which is private to you. + +You can also initiate a conversation like ChatGPT. There are easy installers available for Windows, and macOS. A little more effort needed using Docker to set it up on a Linux machine. + +You can try the [live demo][30] of the chatbot to get an idea and explore the source code on its [GitHub page][31]. + +### 12\. Cerebras-GPT + +![][32] + +Cerebras-GPT offers open-source GPT-like models trained using a massive number of parameters. + +It does not offer a chatbot. They only aim to provide open-source models that you can use for better accuracy and compute efficiency. + +You can get the model details on [Hugging Face][33]. + +### 13\. OpenAssistant + +OpenAssistant was a project to give everyone access to a chatbot like ChatGPT. + +For a while, they collected data from users using a demo. Now, the demo is no longer functional as the project was marked complete by the creator. + +You can utilize the project's progress and the [source][34] to build on it. + +**Suggested Read 📖** + +![][35] + +### Wrapping Up + +ChatGPT's open-source alternatives offer various benefits to users and developers. You can choose to use an open-source chatbot or an open-source language model to build one for your business. + +No matter what you pick, you are free to modify and use it as per your requirements, keeping the policies in mind for available language models. + +_What is your favorite open-source ChatGPT alternative? Did we miss listing any of your favorite open ChatGPT projects? Let us know your thoughts in the comments down below._ + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +via: https://itsfoss.com/open-source-chatgpt-alternatives/ + +作者:[Ankush Das][a] +选题:[lujun9972][b] +译者:[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID) +校对:[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID) + +本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译,[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出 + +[a]: https://itsfoss.com/author/ankush/ +[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972 +[1]: https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2024/01/openchatkit-screenshot.jpg +[2]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/togethercomputer/OpenChatKit +[3]: https://www.together.ai/ +[4]: https://github.com/Stability-AI/stablediffusion +[5]: https://www.together.ai/blog/redpajama-7b +[6]: https://github.com/togethercomputer/OpenChatKit +[7]: https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2024/01/chatrwkv.jpg +[8]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/BlinkDL/RWKV-Gradio-2 +[9]: https://github.com/BlinkDL/ChatRWKV +[10]: https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2024/01/colossalchat.jpg +[11]: https://chat.colossalai.org/ +[12]: https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI/tree/main/applications/Chat +[13]: https://colab.research.google.com/?utm_source=scs-index +[14]: https://github.com/KoboldAI/KoboldAI-Client +[15]: https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all +[16]: https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2024/01/huggingchat.jpg +[17]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingchat/chat-ui +[18]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingchat/chat-ui/tree/main +[19]: https://github.com/young-geng/EasyLM#koala +[20]: https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2023/04/03/koala/ +[21]: https://github.com/young-geng/EasyLM/blob/main/docs/koala.md +[22]: https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2024/01/vicuna.jpg +[23]: https://chat.lmsys.org/ +[24]: https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-03-30-vicuna/ +[25]: https://github.com/tloen/alpaca-lora +[26]: https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2024/01/dolly-huggingface.jpg +[27]: https://github.com/databrickslabs/dolly +[28]: https://huggingface.co/databricks/dolly-v2-12b +[29]: https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2024/01/h2ogpt.jpg +[30]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/h2oai/h2ogpt-chatbot2 +[31]: https://github.com/h2oai/h2ogpt +[32]: https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2024/01/cerebras.jpg +[33]: https://huggingface.co/cerebras/Cerebras-GPT-6.7B +[34]: https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant?tab=readme-ov-file#how-to-try-it-out +[35]: https://itsfoss.com/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/android-chrome-192x192.png