Open Source Linux AI Assistants
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View 41 business solutionsBrowse free open source AI Assistants and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source AI Assistants by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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ChatGPT Desktop Application
🔮 ChatGPT Desktop Application (Mac, Windows and Linux)
ChatGPT Desktop Application (Mac, Windows and Linux) -
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Jarvis
Personal Assistant for Linux and macOS
Jarvis is a simple personal assistant for Linux, MacOS and Windows which works on the command line. He can talk to you if you enable his voice. He can tell you the weather, he can find restaurants and other places near you. He can do some great stuff for you. In order to start Jarvis just clone this repository and run python installer. Run Jarvis from anywhere by command jarvis. You can start by typing help within the Jarvis command line to check what Jarvis can do for you. Plugins may be modified using the decorators @alias, @require and @complete. These special decorators may be used in any order or several times.Not all plugins are compatible with every system. To specify compatibility constraints, use the require-feature. -
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OpenClaw
Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform.
OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot/Moltbot) is an open-source, self-hosted autonomous AI assistant designed to run on user-controlled hardware and bridge conversational natural language with real-world task execution, effectively acting as a proactive digital assistant rather than a reactive chatbot. It lets you send instructions through familiar messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, iMessage, and more, and then interprets those instructions to carry out actions such as managing calendars, sending emails or messages, browsing the web, executing system commands, and coordinating workflows across services — all while maintaining long-term memory and context across sessions. Because it runs locally or on infrastructure you choose (like a personal computer, VPS, or Raspberry Pi), OpenClaw emphasizes data ownership, privacy, and full transparency into how your instructions are handled and what actions are taken, giving users autonomy over their AI workflows. -
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Cherry Studio
Cherry Studio is a desktop client that supports for multiple LLMs
Cherry Studio is a cross-platform desktop client that integrates multiple large language model providers into a unified interface for creating and using AI assistants, supporting customization and multi-model conversations. Selection Assistant with smart content selection enhancement. Deep Research with advanced research capabilities. Memory System with global context awareness. Document Preprocessing with improved document handling. MCP Marketplace for Model Context Protocol ecosystem. -
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Jan.ai
Open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline
Jan.ai is an open-source, privacy-focused AI assistant that serves as an alternative to ChatGPT, running completely locally on your device. It allows you to download and run LLMs (local language models) offline while also offering optional integration with cloud-based model providers—giving you full control over your data and AI interactions. Download and run LLMs (Llama, Gemma, Qwen, GPT-oss etc.) from HuggingFace. Connect to GPT models via OpenAI, Claude models via Anthropic, Mistral, Groq, and others. Create specialized AI assistants for your tasks. MCP integration for agentic capabilities. -
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Chatbox
The Ultimate AI Copilot on Your Desktop
Chatbox is a cross-platform desktop AI client designed to give you a fast, polished, and private way to work with modern language models. It runs locally on Windows, macOS, and Linux, keeping your conversations and data stored on your own device. Chatbox acts as a unified interface for popular LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and local models via Ollama, making it easy to switch providers without changing tools. Built with an ergonomic UI, it’s optimized for long sessions, prompt experimentation, and everyday productivity. The app supports rich formatting, streaming responses, and advanced prompting to help you get clearer, more useful outputs. For individuals and teams alike, Chatbox serves as a powerful desktop copilot that blends simplicity with flexibility. -
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OpenJarvis
Personal AI, On Personal Devices
OpenJarvis is an open-source framework designed to build personal AI agents that run primarily on local devices rather than relying on cloud infrastructure. Developed as part of the Intelligence Per Watt research initiative, it focuses on improving the efficiency and practicality of on-device AI systems. The framework provides shared primitives for building local-first agents, along with evaluation tools that measure performance using metrics such as energy consumption, latency, cost, and accuracy. OpenJarvis integrates with local inference engines like Ollama, vLLM, SGLang, and llama.cpp to run language models directly on personal hardware. It also includes a learning loop that allows models to improve over time using locally generated interaction traces. By prioritizing local execution and efficiency, OpenJarvis aims to provide a foundation for privacy-preserving personal AI assistants. -
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NextChat
Light and Fast AI Assistant
NextChat is a browser extension that injects a floating ChatGPT-style chat sidebar into webpages, enabling instant AI assistance during web browsing. It supports context-aware chatting using page content, quick queries, and code assistance without opening a new tab. Developers appreciate its customization options—like hotkeys, themes, and engine selection—while everyday users enjoy handy tools for writing, summarizing, or brainstorming on the fly. -
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OpenHuman
Your Personal AI super intelligence. Private, simple and powerful
OpenHuman is an open-source personal AI assistant built to operate as a daily-life agent rather than a simple chatbot. It focuses on a private, desktop-first experience with a friendly interface, onboarding flows, and a persistent assistant that can remember context over time. The project connects to common productivity tools, gathers fresh information from integrations, and organizes user knowledge into a local memory system. It also includes practical agent tools such as web search, web fetching, file access, coding utilities, voice input, text-to-speech, and model routing. Its goal is to make an AI assistant feel continuously useful across meetings, messages, documents, tasks, and personal workflows. Since it is still in early beta, it is best suited for technical users and early adopters who want to experiment with a customizable personal AI environment. -
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Mycroft
Mycroft Core, the Mycroft Artificial Intelligence platform
Mycroft is the world’s leading open source voice assistant. It is private by default and completely customizable. Our software runs on many platforms, on desktop, our reference hardware, a Raspberry Pi, or your own custom hardware. Our open-source, modular system can be ported to your device or environment, at any price point. Whether you make voice-assistants, televisions, or microwaves. Whether you have a 5-room BnB or a 1000-room hotel. Your customers will get access to all the necessities of a voice assistant. Our software and essential services are free (as in freedom) and also gratis (at no cost to you or them). And especially not at the cost of their (or your) privacy! Your customers will be able to upgrade their experience with premium content and services. The Mycroft open source voice stack can be freely remixed, extended, and deployed anywhere. Mycroft may be used in anything from a science project to a global enterprise environment. -
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CoPaw
Your Personal AI Assistant; easy to install, deploy on local or coud
CoPaw is a personal AI assistant designed to run on your own machine or in the cloud, giving you full control over memory, models, and data. Built by the AgentScope team, it connects to multiple chat platforms—including DingTalk, Feishu, QQ, Discord, iMessage, and more—through a single unified assistant. CoPaw supports both cloud-based LLM providers and fully local models such as llama.cpp, MLX, and Ollama, allowing you to operate without API keys if preferred. It includes a browser-based Console for chatting, configuring models, managing memory, and extending capabilities with custom skills. With built-in cron scheduling, heartbeat check-ins, and extensible skill loading, CoPaw grows with your workflow over time. Easy installation options—including pip, one-line scripts, Docker, and cloud deployment—make it accessible for both developers and non-technical users. -
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QwenPaw
A personal AI assistant, easy to install
QwenPaw is an AI agent framework developed by the AgentScope ecosystem to provide a desktop-style intelligent assistant powered by Qwen language models and modular agent orchestration. The project combines conversational AI, memory systems, tool usage, workflow automation, and multimodal interaction into a unified assistant environment designed for daily productivity and experimentation. It supports structured reasoning, autonomous task execution, and integration with external tools and APIs, allowing the assistant to perform actions beyond standard chatbot conversations. QwenPaw emphasizes extensibility through modular components that developers can customize for research, personal assistants, automation systems, or enterprise AI workflows. The architecture integrates agent collaboration, planning systems, and long-term contextual memory to create more persistent and adaptive interactions. -
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Leon
Leon is your open-source personal assistant
Leon is an open-source personal AI assistant platform that lets users run a conversational agent locally or on their own servers, providing an alternative to cloud-hosted assistants with a focus on privacy, extensibility, and modular components. It’s designed to process natural language queries and perform tasks such as information retrieval, task automation, scheduling, and custom workflows defined by the user. The architecture emphasizes modularity: you can plug in different language models, intent recognizers, or action handlers to tailor Leon for specific domains like productivity, home automation, or developer tooling. Because it runs independently of third-party cloud services, Leon gives users full control over their data and system behavior, which is especially important for privacy-conscious users and organizations. -
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ZeroClaw
Fast, small, and fully autonomous AI assistant infrastructure
ZeroClaw is a Rust-native autonomous AI agent framework engineered for teams and developers who need highly efficient, secure, and modular AI automation infrastructure that can run reliably in both production and self-hosted environments. It is designed around a trait-based architecture so that model providers, communication channels, memory systems, and tooling integrations can be swapped or extended without rewriting core components, giving engineers flexibility and long-term maintainability. The framework features a compact single binary with fast cold and warm startup times and very low memory overhead, making it suitable even for resource-constrained hardware like small servers or edge devices. Security is a first-class concern, with sandbox controls, encrypted secrets, allowlisted operations, and scoped filesystem access by default, helping reduce risk when running autonomous agents. -
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CowAgent
AI assistant based on large models that can actively think and plan
CowAgent, based on the chatgpt-on-wechat project, is an open-source AI agent framework that integrates large language models into the WeChat ecosystem to create intelligent conversational assistants. It enables automated message handling by connecting WeChat accounts with AI models that can generate contextual replies, process voice messages, and produce images directly inside chats. The platform has evolved beyond a simple chatbot into a more autonomous agent capable of planning complex tasks, maintaining long-term memory, and invoking external tools to complete workflows. It supports multi-turn conversations with per-user context tracking, allowing more natural and persistent interactions across private and group chats. Developers can extend functionality through a plugin architecture and customizable rules, making it suitable for both personal assistants and enterprise automation scenarios. -
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NullClaw
Fastest, smallest, and fully autonomous AI assistant infrastructure
NullClaw is the smallest fully autonomous AI assistant infrastructure, built entirely in Zig as a single static binary with zero runtime dependencies. At just 678 KB with ~1 MB peak RAM usage, it boots in under 2 milliseconds and runs on virtually any hardware, including low-cost ARM boards. Despite its size, it delivers a complete AI stack with 22+ model providers, 18+ communication channels, integrated tools, hybrid memory, and sandboxed runtime support. Its architecture is fully modular, using vtable interfaces that allow providers, channels, tools, memory backends, and runtimes to be swapped without code changes. NullClaw is secure by design, enforcing pairing-based authentication, strict sandboxing, encrypted secrets, resource limits, and workspace scoping by default. Designed for portability and independence, it supports OpenAI-compatible APIs, multiple tunnels, hardware peripherals, and edge deployments including WASM-based logic. -
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PicoClaw
Ultra-Efficient AI Assistant in Go
PicoClaw is an ultra-lightweight, open-source personal AI assistant written in Go, architected from the ground up to operate with extremely low memory usage (under 10 MB) and fast boot times, making it suitable for inexpensive hardware platforms and embedded devices. Inspired by earlier AI assistant projects like “nanobot,” it was refactored to emphasize resource efficiency while still supporting meaningful AI-driven interactions such as conversational workflows, planning tasks, and automation. PicoClaw can run on hardware costing as little as $10 and on resource-constrained environments like RISC-V or ARM boards, with cross-architecture portability achieved through a single self-contained binary. The project’s goals include broad platform support (including Linux, macOS, and multiple CPU architectures), rapid startup times that make the assistant feel responsive, and integration with popular messaging platforms via gateways or bots. -
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Clawbolt
The AI Assistant that actually does things for the trades
Clawbolt is an open-source messaging-first AI assistant built specifically for contractors, tradespeople, and service businesses that prefer managing work through chat instead of traditional dashboards. The platform allows users to interact with an AI assistant through iMessage, SMS, RCS, Telegram, and related messaging channels to handle tasks such as estimates, invoices, scheduling, reminders, and client communication. Clawbolt combines large language model orchestration with memory systems, file storage integrations, and tool-calling workflows to create an assistant capable of managing real operational tasks instead of only answering prompts. The project supports integrations with QuickBooks Online, Google Calendar, Dropbox, and Google Drive, enabling automated business workflows tied directly to conversations. Its architecture is built with FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Docker, and modular LLM provider support, allowing both cloud and self-hosted deployments. -
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MetaGPT
The Multi-Agent Framework
The Multi-Agent Framework: Given one line Requirement, return PRD, Design, Tasks, Repo. Assign different roles to GPTs to form a collaborative software entity for complex tasks. MetaGPT takes a one-line requirement as input and outputs user stories / competitive analysis/requirements/data structures / APIs / documents, etc. Internally, MetaGPT includes product managers/architects/project managers/engineers. It provides the entire process of a software company along with carefully orchestrated SOPs. -
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MimiClaw
Run OpenClaw on a $5 chip
MimiClaw (from the mimiclaw project) is an edge-AI personal assistant that runs directly on extremely low-cost hardware like an ESP32-S3 microcontroller without a full operating system, Node.js, or cloud backend. By running pure C on a bare-metal chip, MimiClaw brings AI interactions and persistent memory to a tiny USB-powered device you can carry in your pocket. You connect the device to Wi-Fi and chat with it using Telegram, making it a convenient always-on assistant for tasks like reminders, quick lookups, or custom AI interactions. Even though it’s running on minimal hardware, MimiClaw maintains local memory that persists across power cycles, enabling context continuity over time without relying on cloud services. Its architecture emphasizes privacy, low power, and portability, ideal for personal or hobbyist use cases where privacy and local control matter. -
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OpenClaw Chinese Translation
Open source personal AI assistant Chinese version
OpenClawChineseTranslation is a community-driven effort to provide translated resources and documentation for the OpenClaw project in Chinese, making it easier for native Chinese developers to understand and implement the agent framework. It focuses on producing accurate and up-to-date translations of tutorials, API references, configuration guides, and explanatory materials so that learners don’t struggle with language barriers when working with the original project. The repository organizes translated articles, diagrams, and examples in a way that mirrors the structure of the original codebase, helping users correlate documentation with the actual implementation. It also includes localized explanations of conceptual topics such as agent reasoning, message handling, workflow design, and best practices. -
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Flowly AI
Flowly is 100x faster than OpenClaw
Flowly is an open-source personal AI assistant that runs locally on your machine and connects to multiple communication platforms like Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, and Slack. It acts as a centralized AI system that can perform tasks such as web browsing, file management, command execution, scheduling, and more—all while keeping your data private. Designed for flexibility, Flowly supports multiple AI providers and models through LiteLLM, allowing users to customize how their assistant behaves. It features a multi-agent architecture where different specialized agents can collaborate, delegate tasks, and operate in parallel. Flowly also includes voice capabilities, enabling real-time phone interactions using speech-to-text and text-to-speech systems. Overall, it provides a powerful, extensible, and privacy-focused alternative to cloud-based AI assistants. -
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OpenAssistant
Chat-based assistant that understands tasks
OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so. In the same way that Stable Diffusion helped the world make art and images in new ways, we want to improve the world by providing amazing conversational AI. We are in the early stages of development, working from established research in applying RLHF to large language models. Open Assistant is a project organized by LAION and individuals around the world interested in bringing this technology to everyone. The code and models are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. Open Assistant will be free to use and modify. There will be versions which will be runnable on consumer hardware. You do not need to run the project locally unless you are contributing to the development process. The website link above will take you to the public website where you can use the data collection app. -
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OpenClaw CN
The Chinese version of OpenClaw
OpenClaw-CN is a Chinese language community adaptation and localization of the OpenClaw project, focused on making a powerful open-source agent framework usable and understandable for Chinese-speaking developers. It includes translated documentation, localized examples, and language-specific nuances so that developers in the Chinese ecosystem can adopt and contribute without a language barrier. The repository mirrors the structure of the upstream project but adds Chinese translations of core workflows, prompts, guidelines, and best practices for building multi-agent systems or AI applications. Beyond simple translation, the project often curates region-specific integrations or tooling recommendations that resonate with local developer environments and platforms. It helps accelerate adoption by providing readable guides, sample configurations, and annotated code that aligns with Chinese developer preferences and tooling conventions. -
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PyGPT
Open source personal AI Assistant for Linux, Windows and Mac
PyGPT is a desktop application that allows you to talk to OpenAI's LLM models such as GPT4 and GPT3 using your own computer and OpenAI API. It allows you to talk in chat mode and in completion mode, as well as generate images using DALL-E 2. PyGPT also adds access to the Internet for GPT via Google Custom Search API and Wikipedia API and includes voice synthesis using Microsoft Azure Text-to-Speech API. Moreover, the application has implemented context memory support, context storage, history of contexts, which can be restored at any time and e.g. continue the conversation from point in history, and also has a convenient and intuitive system of presets that allows you to quickly and pleasantly create and manage your prompts. Plugins support is also available.