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Hugging Face announced last week of a third-party, customizable Chat Assistants as a free, open-source alternative to OpenAI’s custom GPTs — which require a $20 per month subscription.
This offering allows users of Hugging Chat to easily create their own customized AI chatbots with specific capabilities. They can choose which of several open source LLMs they wish to use, including Mistral’s Mixtral and Meta’s Llama 2.
Like OpenAI’s GPTs, Hugging Face — the New York City-based AI startup — has also created an aggregator and a central repository of third-party customized Hugging Chat Assistants, which users can choose.
The assistants aggregator page bears a visual resemblance to the GPT Store page, with custom Assistants displayed in a baseball card-style boxes with circular logos inside.
OpenAI’s GPTs outperform by supporting web search, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and generating logos (through DALL-E 3).
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Local Code Assistants will take off in 2024! 🧑🏻💻 It now takes 5 steps to get a local @github Copilot alternative running an open LLM, which can fine-tuned on your data! 👨🏫 No internet connection is needed!🌐@sourab_m created a fantastic tutorial on how to set up a local copilot… pic.twitter.com/wksoBlGQXn
— Philipp Schmid (@_philschmid) February 5, 2024
Hugging Face just dropped Chat Assistants, the open-source version of OpenAI GPTs.
Here’s what stands out:
1. It’s completely free to use & share (compared to needing a $20 subscription)
2. You can select from any open-source LLMs to run your Assistant on. Choose from Mixtral,… https://t.co/HhStx4nGsR
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) February 3, 2024
Introducing Hugging Chat Assistant! 🤵 Build your own personal Assistant in Hugging Face Chat in 2 clicks! Similar to @OpenAI GPTs, you can now create custom versions of @huggingface Chat! 🤯
An Assistant is defined by
🏷️ Name, Avatar, and Description
🧠 Any available open… pic.twitter.com/9XaReKgg9m— Philipp Schmid (@_philschmid) February 2, 2024
Compared to OpenAI’s custom GPTs, it’s still missing RAG, web search, actions, and a GPT builder.
This puts it below the custom GPT level for now, but it’s all in the roadmap for the open-source competitor.
All around, it’s a nice free alternative. https://t.co/LR4QxK5EOQ
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) February 3, 2024
