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Strategy

We only have 2 planning parameters:

  • 10 year vision
  • 2 week sprint
  • Quarterly OKRs

Ideal Customer​

Our ideal customer is an AI enthusiast or business who has experienced some limitations with current AI solutions and is keen to find open source alternatives.

Problems​

Our ideal customer would use Jan to solve one of these problems.

Control

  • Control (e.g. preventing vendor lock-in)
  • Stability (e.g. runs predictably every time)
  • Local-use (e.g. for speed, or for airgapped environments)

Privacy

  • Data protection (e.g. personal data or company data)
  • Privacy (e.g. nsfw)

Customisability

  • Tinkerability (e.g. ability to change model, experiment)
  • Niche Models (e.g. fine-tuned, domain-specific models that outperform OpenAI)

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Solution​

Jan is a seamless user experience that runs on your personal computer, that glues the different pieces of the open source AI ecosystem to provide an alternative to OpenAI's closed platform.

  • We build a comprehensive, seamless platform that takes care of the technical chores across the stack required to run open source AI
  • We run on top of a local folder of non-proprietary files, that anyone can tinker with (yes, even other apps!)
  • We provide open formats for packaging and distributing AI to run reproducibly across devices

Prerequisites​

Footnotes​

  1. What are you guys doing that can't be done with ChatGPT? ↩

  2. What's your main interest in running a local LLM instead of an existing API? ↩

  3. Ask HN: What's the best self-hosted/local alternative to GPT-4? ↩

  4. LoRAs ↩