Emre here from Homebrew Research. It's great to see Ichigo on HN!

A quick intro: We're a Local AI company building local AI tools and training open-source models.

Ichigo is our training method that enables LLMs to understand human speech and talk back with low latency - thanks to FishSpeech integration. It is open data, open weights, and weight initialized with Llama 3.1, extending its reasoning ability.

Plus, we are the creators and lead maintainers of: https://jan.ai/, Local AI Assistant - an alternative to ChatGPT & https://cortex.so/, Local AI Toolkit (soft launch coming soon)

Everything we build and train is done out in the open - we share our progress on:

https://x.com/homebrewltd https://discord.gg/hTmEwgyrEg

You can check out all our products on our simple website: https://homebrew.ltd/