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Jan: A privacy-first desktop AI assistant (Apache 2.0, 43k stars)
A privacy-first desktop AI assistant running 100% offline with built-in model downloads, extensions, and a clean chat interface.
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A privacy-first desktop AI assistant running 100% offline with built-in model downloads, extensions, and a clean chat interface.

A TypeScript-native multi-agent framework that decomposes goals into runtime task DAGs — runs fully offline on quantized models via Ollama with just 4-8GB VRAM.

A fully local terminal coding agent with bundled llama.cpp inference — no cloud dependency, no per-token billing, and as little as 12GB VRAM required.