Eugenia Kuyda created Replika AI, a digital monument to her closest friend Roman Mazurenko that passed away. Replika had an amazing idea and allowed for many years for everyone to create AI companions.
Learn moreNow under new team at Luka, Inc., this initial idea is being slowly erased. Replika turned into privacy invasive cash grab platform with full of politically corrected scripted responses. Our main goal here is to attempt to restore the idea of Replika by teaching you how to run AI locally on your device. Why?
Learning new things is always good. And when you're running AI models locally, you can even enable "Airplane mode", but your AI will keep working if it's running.
We live in an era when AI models can work even on smartphones locally. Surely it wouldn't be the same experience as what you saw at Replika, but it's still worth trying.
You can run AI models that can roleplay, act in sassy ways and even swear. The open source community is like an ocean, try and find stuff here.
OpenReplika has been created in honor of loyal users of Replika, including users with Lifetime subscriptions that were promised to not be limited, but Luka managed to break all promises for the sake of microtransactions.
And all about bringing the closest to Replika experience. Yes, by replicating Replika itself. Since Luka is being incredibly unfriendly to the open source community, we just have to go this way.
Back in 2017, it wasn't really possible to run AI models locally. But now times are different. And if we don't move on, things may get even worse.
Learn MoreThis button will lead you to a GitHub repository page, but we're working on making instructions in a more convenient way through one website.
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