RecurseChat brings local AI to your Mac

RecurseChat brings AI chat to the Mac. Well-known alternatives are LM Studio and Jan, which are also available for Windows and Linux. They all offer an easier to understand user interface for self-installed language models.

Notes Ollama brings a local chatbot to your notes

NotesOllama is something for tech-savvy Mac users, but it shows what could be possible in the future. The tool integrates a locally installed chatbot directly into Apple Notes.

Brave Leo AI is an assistant in the browser

Brave Leo AI is an AI assistant built right into the alternative Brave browser. It can summarize documents or answer questions about them. More details here. Now also available for Android.

Many updates for Google Gemini

Google has visibly accelerated AI development. At the same time, the company is unifying its activities under the “Gemini” brand. The ChatGPT competitor Google Bard is now called Google Gemini and the proprietary AI models are also called Gemini. Until now, Google’s chatbot used the “Gemini Pro” AI model, but now “Gemini Ultra” is also …

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Slack with new AI features

If you use Slack in a large company and for a long period of time, it is not so easy to stay up to date and to find information again. New AI helpers are designed to change that, summarizing discussions and improving the search function, for example. Sources: VentureBeat, The Verge

ChatGPT gets a memory (as a trial)

Until now, the AI bot has not been able to learn. Each chat is completely separate from the others. OpenAI is now testing a feature that will allow ChatGPT to remember important details from other conversations it has had. It is currently available to a small number of users. The goal is to gain experience …

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