HuggingChat
A groundbreaking open-source alternative to ChatGPT, offering code writing, email drafting, and more tasks in a privacy-friendly, ad-free environment without requiring sign-up.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Online
- iPhone
- iPad
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
Features
- AI Chatbot
- Chat Bot
- AI-Powered
- AI Writing
- Ad-free
- No Coding Required
- Dark Mode
- Marketing Automation
- No Tracking
HuggingChat News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about HuggingChat
Hugging Face shuts down its AI chatbot HuggingChat to make way for new AI serviceJulien Chaumond, co-founder and CTO of Hugging Face, has announced they're shutting down HuggingCha...
- POX published news article about HuggingChat
Hugging Face launches HuggingChat beta for macOS as a desktop alternative to ChatGPTHugging Face has announced the beta release of HuggingChat for macOS, a native application designed...
- Maoholguin published news article about HuggingChat
The open source AI chatbot HuggingChat launches iPhone app with access to top AI modelsHuggingChat, the well-known open source alternative to other prominent AI Chatbots such as ChatGPT,...
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What is HuggingChat?
Hugging Face is now using these servers for its first potentially massive project: HuggingChat is intended to be the first true open-source alternative to OpenAI’s 
ChatGPT.
HuggingChat is based on 
Open Assistant.io, a project launched last December as an open-source competitor to ChatGPT. A chat interface similar to HuggingChat has been freely available since mid-April 2023. HuggingChat can handle many of the tasks ChatGPT can, like writing code, drafting emails and composing rap lyrics.
HuggingChat information
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Comments and Reviews
HuggingChat is an open-source conversational AI platform developed by Hugging Face, designed to provide a free, customizable, and powerful alternative to proprietary chatbots like ChatGPT. It leverages advanced machine learning models, primarily from Hugging Face’s extensive library of pre-trained transformers.
The bad reviews here currently miss the point of what HuggingChat is about. They literally just opened up the chat and started typing with whatever first free model came up.
When you start a session, you can select from a variety of models available in the Hugging Face ecosystem, such as Llama 3 by Meta, Mixtral by Mistral, or Gemma by Google. This is done through a simple dropdown menu in the interface.
Unlike closed-source alternatives, HuggingChat’s open-source nature allows developers and users to tailor its functionality, making it much more useful than just utilizing an API.
Its become more and more dumber lately. Just sad how censored and manipulated its become.
@jacworleo, I don't think you understand what it is. What is becoming dumber? What model are you using?
When I asked it to recommend literature on certain topics - it just made up random titles and random authors. When I asked it to recommend me documentaries and TV series on certain topics - it calls almost the same movies regardless of the topic, and also makes up random titles, and uses music album titles rather than documentary titles.
It's fine for very simple tasks, but overall it's a waste of time. But I guess this is more of a complaint with the models than with the service itself.
Anyway, thanks to the developers and for what is available.
I used the Online to ask a Regex question, and the answer was pleasantly direct and thorough.
amazing, open-source
It's free but you can upgrade to use it more often and it's more cheaper.
There must be an android app for android users only apple devices are supported as of now.
amazing, open-source, powerful, stylish and completely free !